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Barney Kessel: The Essential Albums 1955-1963 (4 CDs)

Barney Kessel: The Essential Albums 1955-1963 (4 CDs)

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Born October 23 1923, Barney Kessel was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Known in particular for his knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies, he was a member of many prominent jazz groups as well as a "first call" guitarist for studio, film, and television recording sessions. Kessel was a member of the premier group of session musicians during the 1960s, informally known as the Wrecking Crew. Kessel began his career as a teenager touring with local dance bands. When he was 16, he started playing with the Oklahoma A&M band, Hal Price & the Varsitonians. The band members nicknamed him "Fruitcake" because he practiced up to 16 hours a day. This collection features eight original Barney Kessel albums on which he performed as leader, or as part of the trio, The Poll Winners. Originally released between 1955 and 1963, and here presented in delightful, digitally remastered quality, this fine selection, which includes the finest works this maverick musician ever recorded, acts equally as a superb starting point to this great man's music, and as a welcome reminder for those ready versed.



- Disc 1 -
1 Begin the Blues
2 Louisiana
3 Happy Feeling
4 Embraceable You
5 Wail Street
6 Indiana
7 Moten Swing
8 Midnight Sun
9 Contemporary Blues
10 Don't Blame Me
11 12th Street Rag
12 Easy Like
13 Tenderly
14 Lullaby of Birdland
15 What Is There to Say?
16 Bernardo
17 Vicky's Dream
18 Salute to Christian
19 That's All
20 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
21 Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)
22 April in Paris
23 North of the Border


- Disc 2 -
1 Cheerful Little Earful
2 Makin' Whoopee
3 My Reverie
4 Blues for a Playboy
5 Love Is for the Very Young
6 Carioca
7 Mountain Greenery
8 Indian Summer
9 Gone with the Wind
10 Laura
11 I Love You
12 Fascinating Rhythm
13 Swingin' the Toreador
14 A Pad on the Edge of Town
15 If You Dig Me
16 Free As a Bird
17 Viva El Toro!
18 Flowersville
19 Carmen's Cool
20 Like, There's No Place Like


- Disc 3 -
1 Some Like It Hot
2 I Wanna Be Loved By You
3 Stairway to the Stars
4 Sweet Sue
5 Runnin' Wild
6 Sweet Georgia Brown
7 Down Among the Sheltering Palms
8 Sugar Blues
9 I'm Thru with Love
10 By the Beautiful Sea
11 Little Susie
12 The Duke
13 So What
14 Misty
15 Doodlin'
16 The Golden Striker
17 Li'l Darlin'
18 The Blessing
19 This Here


- Disc 4 -
1 Let's Cook!
2 Time Remembered
3 Just in Time
4 Tiger Rag
5 Jersey Bounce
6 Bluesology
7 Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
8 Joy Spring
9 Now's the Time
10 Miss Memphis
11 New Rhumba

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