{"id":17488,"date":"2025-09-17T19:55:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/?p=17488"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:42:10","slug":"moon-and-sand-kenny-burrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/moon-and-sand-kenny-burrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Guitar Intro &#8211; Moon and Sand (Kenny Burrell)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 160%; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;\">In this mini lesson, you\u2019ll learn the intro to Moon and Sand as played by Kenny Burrell on his 1980 album <em>Moon and Sand<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17498\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/moon-and-sand-kenny-burrell.jpg\" alt=\"Moon and Sand (Kenny Burrell)\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" 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Moon and Sand is a jazz standard composed by Alec Wilder in 1941 and first performed by Xavier Cugat and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra. 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