Embraceable You – 2019
Kenny Barron
An uplifting solo performance
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Kenny Barron, who was 76 at the time of this solo performance, has been such a consistent and inventive pianist since the early 1960s that he has often been taken for granted.
After working locally in Philadelphia, Barron graduated from high school, worked with Yusef Lateef, and moved to New York in 1961.
He started at the top performing with James Moody, was a member of the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet during 1962-66, was with Freddie Hubbard for three years, and then back with Lateef for five.
Since then Barron has mostly been heard with his own groups although he also had a long association with Stan Getz.
A superb modern mainstream pianist, Kenny Barron is featured here as a solo pianist, uplifting and giving both beauty and swing to “Embraceable You.”
-Scott Yanow
Ella Fitzgerald