{"id":2582,"date":"2019-05-10T17:14:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2019-05-10T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:42:00","slug":"guitarist-kenny-burrell-shouldnt-be-in-trouble-but-he-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2019\/05\/guitarist-kenny-burrell-shouldnt-be-in-trouble-but-he-is.html","title":{"rendered":"Guitarist Kenny Burrell shouldn&#8217;t be in trouble. But he is."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Guitarist Kenny Burrell &#8212; since the 1950s a prominent, popular and influential jazz innovator, recording ace, bandleader and esteemed educator (prof and director of Jazz Studies at UCLA) &#8212; at age 87 is suffering grievous financial calamity due to health care costs and multiple frauds. His plight is candidly detailed by his wife Katherine at their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/support-kenny-burrell\">GoFundMe campaign<\/a> site, her story verified by <a href=\"https:\/\/jazzfoundation.org\/musicians-emergency-fund\/\">The Jazz Foundation of America<\/a> in its <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn2.jazztimes.com\/2019\/05\/Jazz-Foundation-KB-Statement-5.10.19.pdf\">statement supporting the Burrells<\/a> posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/jazztimes.com\/blog\/gofundme-page-launched-to-support-kenny-burrell-in-time-of-need\/#\">JazzTimes magazine<\/a>. Read that, then kick in, please, and demand to know from whoever might have a say in it why our safety net is so ragged even our best-established artists are just a slip from disaster. <\/p>\n\nKenny starts playing at 2:38\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X9lLqtOb9rk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guitarist Kenny Burrell &#8212; since the 1950s a prominent, popular and influential jazz innovator, recording ace, bandleader and esteemed educator (prof and director of Jazz Studies at UCLA) &#8212; at age 87 is suffering grievous financial calamity due to health care costs and multiple frauds. His plight is candidly detailed by his wife Katherine at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1355,20,1713,1714],"class_list":{"0":"post-2582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-howard-mandel","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-kenny-burrell","11":"tag-ucla-jazz-studies","12":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/39106836_1557419914682773_r.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-FE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":186,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/04\/post.html","url_meta":{"origin":2582,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Big Three&#8221; jazz guitarists extended to a couple dozen","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"April 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In\u00c2\u00a0his article on the collaboration of Jim Hall and Bill Frisell in the April issue of Jazz Times, Evan Haga refers to the \"Big Three\" of current jazz guitarists: Frisell, John Scofield and John McLaughlin.Much as I dig them (and Hall), that designation is a rather typical journalistic foreshortening of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;main&quot;","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":116,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2008\/08\/jazz_fests_of_august.html","url_meta":{"origin":2582,"position":1},"title":"Jazz fests of August","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"August 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Free jazz fests across the U.S. mark summer's glorious end. 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