Kenny Burrell`s choice of amp ?

[BryanMatthews]

Think Chitlins Con Carne or Midnight Blue, which amp would Burrell have been using on those tracks ? Damned damned good tones.

Bryan

[jumpnblues]

Not sure about those songs but most of the photos I've seen have him playing a Twin Reverb.


Tom

[kronos]

Think Chitlins Con Carne or Midnight Blue, which amp would Burrell have been using on those tracks ? Damned damned good tones.

Bryan

Maybe this one.

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w102/kronos_018/heri.jpg
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w102/kronos_018/heri3.jpg

[BryanMatthews]

do no jazzers use head / cab , any footage ive watched always seems to be combos being used.

Bryan

[Robertito]

The house amp at Rudy Van Gelder's studio was a tweed Deluxe, so it's a likely candidate.

[Ryguy]

99% sure Midnight Blue was recorded on a Tweed Deluxe. Like Robertito says, it was the amp at RVG's studio, and if you try a big archtop with p-90's into a Deluxe at low volume, it is really "easy" to cop that tone.

[Mark C]

I've been able to get close to that tone with any good old clean Fender and an es175. I do think the Tweed Deluxe is correct, but blackface Fenders are also great for a 60's soul jazz sound.

[gitman]

his tone in those days was not always consistent - same with his peers Wes, Pass, Hall, etc. they recorded in different cities, different studios and normally they did not carry amps when they travelled. so in one studio you might have a tweed/blonde/blackface Fender of medium wattage and in another you have an Ampeg, a Gibson, a Standel, a Gretsch or a Magnavox. i have some Chess recordings of Kenny Burrell that he did in Chicago in the early/mid 60's and IMHO he got the best (fattest, warmest) tone of all his recordings that i know of - maybe it was a combination of his (D'Angelico New Yorker or an Epiphone Emperor, both with a single DeArmond pickup) and one such particular amp or the engineer dialed in some more compression/saturation into his mic-preamp.... it's impossible to tell really. when i saw Kenny live a couple of years ago he had his Super 400 and played through a standard Twin- not a really good sound but he played great non-the-less.

[Rotten]

I agree with the tweed Deluxe; it sounds very much like that. I also believe that someone dialed in some spring reverb along the signal path. I don't know why his early stuff is not on more people's list of top guitar tones.