Minor Blues

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{{Infobox album

| name = Minor Blues

| type = Album

| artist = Kenny Barron Trio

| cover = Minor Blues.jpg

| alt =

| released = August 19, 2009

| recorded = May 4–5, 2009

| venue =

| studio = Avatar, New York City

| genre = Jazz

| length = 72:23

| label = Venus
VHCD-1032

| producer = Tetsuo Hara and Todd Barkan

| chronology = Kenny Barron

| prev_title = The Traveler

| prev_year = 2007

| next_title = Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise

| next_year = 2010

}}

Minor Blues is an album by pianist Kenny Barron recorded in New York in 2009 and released on the Japanese Venus label.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/kenny-barron/catalog/#venus-vhcd-1032 Kenny Barron Catalog] accessed January 24, 2017[http://www.venusrecord.com/v2/release/VHCD-1032.html Venus Records Catalogue], accessed January 24, 2017[https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/kenny-barron-discography/ Enciclopedia del Jazz: Kenny Barron] accessed January 24, 2017Fitzgerald, M. [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Barron/kb-disc.php Kenny Barron Discography], accessed January 24, 2019

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}

| rev2 = Jazzwise

| rev2score={{rating|3|5}}{{cite web |last1=Hall |first1=Tony|title=Review Search |url=https://www.jazzwise.com/review-search?searchText=kenny+barron |website=Jazzwise |access-date=18 November 2020 |language=en |date=June 2010}}

}}

In the review on AllMusic, Ken Dryden noted "This is yet another fine example of Kenny Barron's superb chops in a small-group setting".{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0001969830|first=Ken|last=Dryden|label=Kenny Barron – Minor Blues: Review|accessdate=January 24, 2017}}

Track listing

  1. "Minor Blues" (Kenny Barron) – 6:29
  2. "Beautiful Love" (Wayne King, Victor Young, Egbert Van Alstyne, Haven Gillespie) – 6:55
  3. "Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) – 6:51
  4. "For Heaven's Sake" (Elise Bretton, Sherman Edwards, Donald Meyer) – 9:00
  5. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 8:16
  6. "Too Late Now" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 8:34
  7. "Don't Explain" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.) – 6:30
  8. "Hush-a-Bye" (Ambroise Thomas, Sammy Fain, Jerry Seelen) – 6:22
  9. "I've Never Been in Love Before" (Frank Loesser) – 6:49
  10. "My Ideal" (Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting, Newell Chase) – 6:37

Personnel

References