MIDNIGHT BLUE

Created on 08/12/2005
Latest update on 09/03/2024

Artist: Kenny Burrell
Author: Kenny Burrell
Label: Blue Note
Year: 1963

On his lp Midnight Blue with Stanley Turrentine (tenor sax), Major Holley (bass), Bill English (drums) and Ray Barretto (congas). See also: Chitlin Con Carne. The sleeve design inspired Elvis Costello's Almost Blue album.

Covers:

1970:

Van Morrison [bass, rhythm guitar and overall groove in Moondance]

2006:

Nigel Kennedy

Moondance in The Originals, as if there's ever been someone else's but Van. There are a few elements to feed this presumption: the bass line, rhythm guitar and even the whole groove of Moondance follows Kenny Burrell's in his Blue Note instrumental Midnight Blue. All Van adds to this mute blue night is the moonshine. Kenny Burrell's guitar rhythm groove throughout the whole track had it's own example in Johnny Lytle's vibraphone part in Selim ('66).

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