8436028698677

To Swing Or Not To Swing

Barney Kessel

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Format: CD

Cat No: 27278

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

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Begin the Blues
      • 2. Louisianna
      • 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
      • 12. Let's Cook
      • 13. Time Remembered
      • 14. Just in Time
      • 15. Love is Here to Stay
      • 16. On a Slow Boat to China
      • 17. My Old Flame
      • 18. A Foggy Day
      • 19. 64 Bars on Wilshire