Burrell, Kenny

LC control no.	n 81071440
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Burrell, Kenny *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Burrell, Kenneth Earl Burrell, Kenney バレル, ケニー
Other standard no.	0000000114426449 Q255355 42024720
Associated country	United States
Associated place	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Birth date	1931-07-31
Place of birth	Detroit (Mich.)
Field of activity	Jazz
Affiliation	Wayne State University Columbia Records, Inc. University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Department of Music
Profession or occupation	Educators Guitarists Jazz musicians Composers University and college faculty members
Special note	Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	His Jazz guitar, c1963. Burrell, K. Pieces of blue and the blues [SR] p1988: label (Kenny Burrell) New Grove dict. of jazz (Burrell, Kenny (Kenneth Earl); b. July 31, 1931, Detroit; guitarist) Midnight special [SR], p1988: container (Kenney Burrell, guitar) Burrell, K. Introducing Kenny Burrell [SR] p2004: container (Kenny Burrell, guitar) insert (ケニー・バレル) African American National Biography, accessed January 2, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Burrell, Kenny; Kenneth Earl Burrell; guitarist, educator, jazz musician, composer, arranger; born 31 July 1931 in Detroit, Michigan, United States; BA in music, Wayne State University (1955), played with Dizzy Gillespie and made his debut recording with Gillespie, Percy Heath, Milt Jackson and John Coltrane (1951); recorded under the name "Kenny Burrell and His Four Sharps" for JVB label (1957); signed with Columbia Records; led jazz workshops at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (mid-1970s); taught "Ellingtonia", the first university course on Duke Ellington (1978); toured with the Phillip Morris Superband (1985-1986); director of UCLA jazz studies program (1996); received the 2004 Down Beat Jazz Educator of the Year Award and was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts (2005))