Kessel Plays Standards [Import] [Limited Edition]

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Japanese 20-BIT K2 Super Coding remastered reissue of 1958 album, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve.

Kessel Plays Standards, Music, Barney Kessel, Bop, Cool, Jazz, Pop, Standards

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Barney Was Great! So Is This Collection!

the late, great Barney Kessel

music on guitar

Kessel & Coop Swing Unconventionally

Kessel Plays Standards
Barney Kessel
Manufacturer: Ojc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music
Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
General | Jazz | Styles | Music
Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000000YDE
Release Date: 1991-07-01

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Customer Reviews:

Barney Was Great! So Is This Collection! .......2006-09-13

The late, great Barney Kessel could play guitar with his feet better than Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton----with all of their fuzz boxes, distortion chambers, and inane three chord, twelve barre redundancy----could play with their hands. Listen to Kessel play on "Our Love Is Here To Stay" and "My Old Flame." That's brilliant technique. He was truly a giant among jazz guitarists. I highly recommend this collection of great American standards by a truly great American guitarist.

the late, great Barney Kessel.......2006-07-29

This is really more on his body of work than this release alone. Get anything you can get your hands on by Barney. Everything he did was great and it was never about what he could do but about the music. I've been reading some webpages about him recently to find out more about him. First off, he may well have been the most recorded guitarist of all time. Like the guitar on the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds?" It's Barney. Elvis' "Return to Sender?" Barney, too. He did work with the Beatles. In fact, "counted among his fans such superstars as the late Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison.

"Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that," Lennon said following a recording session in the 1970s.

Harrison was even more enthused, telling an interviewer in the 1960s: "Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world."
I'd always heard that he was very friendly to up-and-comers and everybody, really. What I didn't know is that he was a devoted Christian, acc. to his wife. That's really nice to know. There are very few great guitarists left. You have Herb Ellis, Bucky Pizzarelli from the days when there really was jazz. Barney was among the best. Seriously, get anything by him. My particular favorites are this one, "Easy Like," and "Solo." But they're all great. His albums are not your typical guitar as frontman shredding away but real group efforts. Very enjoyable. For Barney, it was always about the music first.

music on guitar.......2004-06-09

For all of the technique on hand in the 21st century, most of it is empty . Barney Kessel could play whatever was put in front of him, or compose limitless variations on the spot; elite technique, always in the service of the music.

Kessel & Coop Swing Unconventionally.......2000-12-23

I'm generally not a big fan of experimental instrumentation in jazz, especially swing. I like the traditional ensembles with saxes, trumpets, trombones, bass, piano & drums (preferably brushes). But this disc is an exception. It features swing guitarist Barney Kessel with a first rate (if traditional) rhythm section and the unusual addition of west coast tenorman Bob Cooper on (wait for it).....oboe! But what a treat! On the tracks where the oboe is featured it's done really well and counters the guitar in a relaxed and natural way. A big part of it is the careful arranging work - very impressive. Recorded in 54 and 55, this disc features 12 tracks, no alternate takes, and if you didn't guess from the title, they're all standards - both swinging up tempo charts and ballads. Highly recommended swing guitar with a twist.

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