Kenny Burrell Licks

Kenny Burrell has been a high in demand guitarist during all his career (he was Duke Ellington's favorite guitar player). Some of the jazz giants he played with : Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, ...

His most famous record is 'Midnight Blue' with the Latin flavored hit 'Chitlins Con Carne', later covered by blues giant Stevie Ray Vaughan.

He has a cool guitar tone and is able to perform some very smooth jazz guitar.  His main influences are bop, blues and latin and you can hear a lot of pentatonics and blues scales in his improvisations.

Recommended listening: 'Midnight Blue'

II V I Licks

1)  This lick is a nice way to change position on the fret board.

2)  The second lick starts with a G pentatonic scale, advances to a Dm9 arpeggio and resolves in the 3 of Cmaj7.

Blues Lick

1)  This is a bluesy lick in the Eb blues pentatonic scale.