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
Weather Report
Thommy Andersson; Kirk Knuffke; Jose Davila
Stephane Galland; Lucia Pires; Louise van den Heuvel
RVB Quartet
Robin Verheyen; Robyn Schulkowsky; Goeyvaerts String Trio
Rima Khcheich; Maarten Ornstein; Juan Rodriguez; Tony Overwater; Joost Lijbaart
Markus Conrad; Caspar van Meel; Afra Mussawisade; Christoph Konig
Le Monde Merveilleux de Pepito; Alexandra Grimal; Lucia Pires; Lynn Cassiers