Product Description
Scarce High Quality Japanese Pressing ~ Immaculate Vinyl! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes Insert. Arranged & Conducted By The Legendary Gil Evans, Fine Guitarist, Kenny Burrell Displays All His Intricate Skills On This Superb Jazz Instrumental LP.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Sounds lovely indeed!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Minor foxing on inner gatefold.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Downstairs
Lotus Land
Terrace Theme
Excerpt From “Prelude #2”
Side 2:
Moon And Sand
Loie
Greensleeves
Last Night When We Were Young
Breadwinner
AMG –
Throughout, jazz guitarist Burrell takes thoughtful, concise, and utterly musical solos 4 stars Though the jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell is associated mostly with Blue Note-based hard bop and soul-jazz (he had a hit with the funky "Chile con Carne"), he is also a musician of considerable artistry. Witness his landmark 1965 collaboration with Gil Evans, Guitar Forms, which rivals anything the arranger did with Miles Davis. Indeed, the track "Lotus Land" has a bolero form very reminiscent of Sketches of Spain. There is no stinting on the blues here, either, as evidenced on "Downstairs" and "Terrace Theme." But the highlights are the bossa nova version of Alec Wilder's "Moon and Sand," as well as a characteristically slow and luxurious treatment of Harold Arlen's "Last Night When We Were Young." Throughout, Burrell takes thoughtful, concise, and utterly musical solos, and even switches to acoustic classical guitar on "Prelude #2" and "Loie.”