Release Date: 12 September 2011
Label: Poll Winner Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436028698677
Genres: Jazz  
Release Date: 12 September 2011
Label: Poll Winner Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436028698677
Genres: Jazz  
Description
This CD + 16-page booklet presents Barney Kessel's complete original 1955 album To Swing or Not to Swing (Contemporary C3513). This fantastic LP features Kessel swinging along with Harry "Sweets" Edison, Bill Perkins and Shelly Manne, and also showcases the guitarist on four tracks backed only by the rhythm section. As a bonus, a complete 1957 quintet session that also features Shelly Manne, as well as five further tracks which find Kessel in quintet (with Bob Cooper on tenor sax), quartet and duo formats.
Tracklisting
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach
Dinah Washington
Art Pepper
Sonny Rollins
Thelonious Monk
Bill Evans & Jim Hall
Charles Mingus
Sonny Stitt Quartet
Nigel Price Organ Trio
Don Was
Ari Tsugi
Finding Ways (Sebastian Rochford)
Os Cariocas
Eric Dolphy Quintet
Cal Tjader
Billie Holiday