Kenny Burrell – On View At The Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Kenny Burrell – On View At The Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:55:02 minutes | 2,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

As the 1950s segued into the 1960s, much of popular culture was navigating the thrills of modernity and the comforts of tradition, and figuring out how to move forward while still retaining what was great about what came before. This was especially true in jazz, which had positioned itself throughout the ‘50s as music that could be both sophisticated and progressive, while also being mindfully nostalgic. By the end of the decade, though, the young lions of jazz were clearly ready to let their voices be heard, while the old guard was showing off plenty of new tricks. Kenny Burrell’s On View at the Five Spot Café is an extraordinary document of these changes happening in real time. Recorded in the Bowery’s preeminent spot for daring jazz performances (just a few months before Ornette Coleman’s group would make their New York debut), On View captures a band of 20-somethings meeting jazz royalty (Art Blakey) and, together, pushing the vocabulary of hard bop into some truly fiery places.Although this was Burrell’s first recorded live date as a leader, the guitarist’s full power not just as a player, but also as an empathic and energized musical director, is on display. While he and Blakey get plenty of spotlight time (most notably on “The Take Off,” which features them both at their most electric, or “Lover Man,” which contains one of Burrell’s most iconic solos), there’s also lots of room for the high-energy playing of the rest of the band. Roland Hanna and Bobby Timmons are both given time to shine on the remarkably piano-focused numbers, like the former on “If You Could See Me Now,” while Tina Brooks’ tenor sax cuts through the proceedings with melodic forcefulness.

There’s also a great version of ” Lady Be Good” (which riffs on the Monk/Coleman Hawkins version best known as “Hackensack”) that is one of the highlights of the set. When this album was originally reissued as part of Blue Note’s first U.S. run of CDs back in 1987, there were three tracks added; that version—mastered for digital by Ron McMaster—had long been hailed as a definitive version of the evening. This new Complete Masters version (part of the label’s Tone Poet series of vinyl-forward reissues) further extends it with more than 45 minutes of previously unreleased music. While two of those extra cuts (“Birk’s Works” and “Lady Be Good”) are alternate takes, and one (“36-23-36 / The Theme”) fully expands a performance on the original album, three are completely new. Truly definitive. – Jason Ferguson

Tracklist:

1-1. Kenny Burrell – Birk’s Works (Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (09:47)
1-2. Kenny Burrell – Hallelujah (Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (11:44)
1-3. Kenny Burrell – Lady Be Good (Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (09:58)
1-4. Kenny Burrell – Lover Man (Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (08:21)
1-5. Kenny Burrell – 36-23-36 (Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (03:44)
1-6. Kenny Burrell – Swingin’ (Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (09:51)
1-7. Kenny Burrell – If You Could See Me Now (Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (05:30)
1-8. Kenny Burrell – Beef Stew Blues (Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (04:36)
1-9. Kenny Burrell – The Next Time You See Me, Things Won’t Be The Same (Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (07:35)
1-10. Kenny Burrell – The Take Off (Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (05:39)
1-11. Kenny Burrell – Birks Works (Alternate Take / Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (09:40)
1-12. Kenny Burrell – Lady Be Good (Alternate Take / Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (09:57)
1-13. Kenny Burrell – Love Walked In (Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (05:51)
1-14. Kenny Burrell – 36-23-36 / The Theme (Live At Five Spot Café, 1959) (12:42)

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