Kessel Plays Standards

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Kessel Plays Standards
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Studio album by
Barney Kessel
Released1956
RecordedJune 4, 1954, July 1, 1954 and September 12, 1955
StudioContemporary Records Studio, Los Angeles, California
Genre Jazz
Label Contemporary C3512
Producer Lester Koenig
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Kessel Plays Standards (subtitled Barney Kessel Volume 2) is an album by guitarist Barney Kessel released on the Contemporary label and featuring eight tracks originally released on the Barney Kessel Volume 2 10-inch album which were recorded at sessions in 1954 along with an additional four tracks from 1955. [1]

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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Inventive frameworks and the utilization of Cooper's jazz oboe (a real rarity in jazz of the time) give the otherwise boppish reissue its own personality". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) - 2:45
  2. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:26
  3. "On a Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) - 3:18
  4. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:20
  5. "My Old Flame" (Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow) - 3:39
  6. "Jeepers Creepers" (Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer) - 3:51
  7. "Barney's Blues" (Barney Kessel) - 3:00
  8. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills) - 3:13
  9. "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:10
  10. "You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) - 2:53
  11. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:57
  12. "64 Bars on Wilshire" (Kessel) - 3:17

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Contemporary Records discography accessed May 25, 2015
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Kessel Plays Standards – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 820. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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