On View At The Five Spot Café: The Complete Master (2CD)

On View At The Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters, guitarist Kenny Burrell’s 1959 hard bop summit with drummer Art Blakey. The expanded 2-CD set presents the complete recorded performances for the first time in any format including 6 previously unissued tracks.

Burrell had already achieved rising star status with several stellar Blue Note albums to his name when he entered the storied NYC jazz club The Five Spot Café on August 25, 1959, for his first live recording date as a leader. The band Burrell assembled for the gig was stacked with top talent: Blakey on drums, Tina Brooks on tenor saxophone, Roland Hanna & Bobby Timmons on piano & Ben Tucker on bass. The mood was relaxed & soulful, but the music was red hot & the grooves were deep on that steamy summer evening of hard bop bliss.