Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue

How hip can a tune be? Of course you know this one. It's one of the coolest and bluesiest jazz guitar recordings around. Great for bridging the gap between blues and jazz lovers, which Kenny so superbly does so often, especially on his classic 1963 album "Midnight Blue." Besides, this album is generally seen as a classic example of the "Blue Note" sound and the perfect "late night, neon light flashing outside of the window, cigarette smoke swirling up into nothing" record." The whole album is great and essential listening for guitarists but I will focus on how to play the title track here.

Let's first have a look at the sheet music. It's a jazz blues in the key of F. Many blue notes in the melody.

The head is not that hard to play. Here's an instructional video that tells you how to do it step by step. The exact chord names are not always stated but of course they are all derived from the vanilla changes as given in the sheet music. 

Can you play it? Now practise with this backing track. The chords used in this backing track are slightly different from the ones in the B section of the sheet music, but these work fine too:

If you want to play the entire Burrell solo here's a very helpful video with standard notation and tabs. Check it out.