JP#s and I attended Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi at the Masonic Auditorium, a couple weeks ago, and then tonight we saw Kenny Burrell and his octet at Yoshi's San Francisco. Derek was awesome, Susan played well and sang great, and Carlos Santana came out for a long jam in which he was weak and Derek smoked him unbelievably. Kenny Burrell has still got his chops and played some sweet guitar. His band was tight and had some standouts on drums, trombone, alto sax and bass. The 90 minute set was impinged upon by a washed up singer named Ernie Andrews who hammed it up for three way too long songs. It was great to see this legend but I would have liked some more focus on him and none of the ham-bone.