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Kenny Burrell

Day 7
#70 – Kenneth Earl ‘Kenny’ Burrell (b.1931). American jazz guitarist. Albums include: The Cats (1957), Midnight Blue (1967) and Tenderley (2011).

I started by drawing the six guitar strings, which soon became a letter ‘K’. The crossover made an elegant pattern. The title of the album Midnight Blue was the starting point for the colour. A fade on the lines made it look a little more sophisticated. Whilst experiments with the album title were interesting, as were the addition of all the album titles, I settled on just the guitar strings as the most elegant solution.

3 hours

Listen...

to excerpts from ‘Midnight Blue’

 
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