A Generation Ago Today
{{Infobox album
| name = A Generation Ago Today
| type = Studio
| artist = Kenny Burrell
| cover = A Generation Ago Today.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1967
| recorded = December 16 & 20, 1966, January 31, 1967, and March 28, 1967
| venue =
| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
| genre = Jazz
| length =
| label = Verve
V6-8656
| producer = Creed Taylor
| chronology = Kenny Burrell
| prev_title = Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas
| prev_year = 1966
| next_title = Ode to 52nd Street
| next_year = 1967
}}
A Generation Ago Today is an album by guitarist Kenny Burrell featuring standards associated with the Benny Goodman Sextet and Charlie Christian recorded in 1966 and 1967 and released on the Verve label.[http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician_discography.php?id=5479#anchor124 All About Jazz Kenny Burrell discography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080331185644/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician_discography.php?id=5479 |date=2008-03-31 }} accessed August 3, 2012
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
}}
Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating "the now-obscure set has been out-of-print {{sic|for quite a|while|expected=for quite a while}} but the music is excellent".Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/generation-ago-today-r153403 Allmusic Review], accessed August 3, 2012
Track listing
- "As Long as I Live" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
- "Wholly Cats" (Benny Goodman)
- "A Smooth One" (Goodman)
- "I Surrender Dear" (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford)
- "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Ted Shapiro)
- "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell)
- "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Goodman, Andy Razaf, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb)
- "Rose Room" (Art Hickman, Harry Williams)
Personnel
For Charlie Christian and Benny Goodman
This is an re-issue by Verve with three additional tracks from the same recording sessions.
- "As Long as I Live" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
- "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell)
- "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Goodman, Andy Razaf, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb)
- "I Surrender Dear" (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford)
- "Rose Room" (Art Hickman, Harry Williams)
- "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Ted Shapiro)
- "A Smooth One" (Goodman)
- "Wholly Cats" (Benny Goodman)
- Seven Come Eleven
- Moonglow
- Flying Home
References
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