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Kenny Burrell [guitar]
Stanley Turrentine [tenor sax]
Major Holley [bass]
Bill English [drums]
Ray Barretto [conga]

1963/01/08

ケニー・バレル（ギター）
スタンリー・タレンタイン（テナーサックス）
メジャー・ホーリー（ベース）
ビル・イングリッシュ（ドラムス）
レイ・バレット（コンガ）

"Mule" (Kenny Burrell, Major Holley Jr.) – 6:56

Mule — a title like this has immediate meaning to any ex-
perienced jazz zoologist. Just as surely as Willie Smith is The
Lion, Johnny Hodges the Rabbit and Ben Webster the Frog, so
is Major Holley Jr. the redoubtable mule of the jazz family.
This one opens with beautiful subtlety; just Kenny ad-libbing
very slowly, with an almost motionless, one-or-two-notes-to-a-
bar, reluctant Mule in the stall behind him. Maior Holley is a
great man, though less famous than others with his talent; and
he knows the blues just as sure-footedly as Kenny himself. Mule
is part of Kenny's regular group, which worked recently at the
Five Spot in New York. (The tasteful Bill English, too,
is part of the regular Burrell personnel.)
- Leonard Feather, from the original liner notes.

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