Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Kenny Burrell
Midnight Blue is our favorite Kenny Burrell album of all time, at least in part because it’s one of the All Time Best Sounding Blue Notes.
If you already own a copy of Midnight Blue and you don’t consider it one of the best sounding jazz guitar records in your collection, then you surely don’t have a copy that sounds the way our Hot Stamper pressings do. In other words, there is a very good chance you simply don’t know what you’re missing.
Don’t think this is just another 60s jazz guitar album. With Stanley Turrentine on sax and Ray Baretto on congas, this music will move you like practically no other. When Turrentine (a shockingly underrated player) rips into his first big solo, you’ll swear he’s right there in the room with you.
And if you do have one of our better Hot Stampers and it still isn’t the best sounding jazz guitar album in your collection, then you have one helluva jazz collection. Drop us a line and tell us what record you like the sound of better than Midnight Blue. We’re at a loss to think of what it might be.
Midnight Blue checks off a number of important boxes for us here at Better Records.
- It’s Kenny Burrell’s best sounding album (as far as we know) and a true jazz demo disc
- It’s one of Rudy Van Gelder‘s greatest recordings
- It’s a masterpiece as well as a member of our core jazz collection
- It’s a personal favorite, a record we’ve been obsessed with for a very long time