Kenny Burrell's album Midnight Blue

@OP - your connections were correct before the change. The guitar should be on the left.

There is no absolutely foolproof way just from recordings to know whether the channels are connected correctly - except to use a channel identification test disc.

However, in the majority of rock and pop recordings, hi hats will be panned right of centre as you face the system. That is the perspective you would have if you were looking at a right handed drummer at a live gig. Exceptions to that presentation are pretty rare.

Great album, Midnight Blue btw.

so, having not heard this, I went on qobuz...will listen...but Chitlins Con Carne - My Wife and I just discovered this little diddy, first from Stevie Ray Vaughan, then from various other artists. This song seems to be some kind of rights of passage that artists have to create their own way of playing. Nice...listening now.

also, listening to it, guitar is on the right with my system here at the office.

Jim, listening as I write to Midnight Blue and loving it. Always looking for new music. Greg in MD

@pfeiffer 

You have good taste. I have many Kenny Burrell recordings. In my system,   "Midnight Blue" Burrell is on the left and Stanley Turrentine (Tenor saxophone) is on the right.

Charles