Barney Kessel

• COLLECTOR'S DIGIPACK SERIES

• LIMITED EDITION 3-PANEL DIGIPACK + INSIDE BOOKLET

• 2 ORIGINAL ALBUMS ON 1 CD

• BONUS ALBUM, APPEARING FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON CD!!!!

• INCLUDES 2 BONUS TRACKS

All of the studio collaborations by the great tenor player Harold Land and guitar master Barney Kessel. The first album, El Tigre (Charlie Parker Records PLP-832), was also issued under Jimmy Rowles’ name with the no-less-florid-title of Let’s Get Acquainted With Jazz...For People Who Hate Jazz! (Interlude ST-1012). Although all of it was recorded on the same date, Harold Land and trumpeter Pete Candoli alternate as the only horns on the various tracks, but they never play a note together! Two alternative takes of “The Blues,” not on the original album, have been added, as well as the complete 1966 album Time Will Tell (Tangerine Records TRC-1506), an absolute rarity appearing here for the first time ever on CD. A big band LP (also featuring such stars as Harry “Sweets” Edison, BTeddy Edwards and Buddy Collette), this is the only other existing Kessel-Land collaboration, with the sole exception of a single version of “Cool Blues” recorded live in Pasadena in 1975.

PERSONNEL:

• BARNEY KESSEL, guitar
• HAROLD LAND, tenor sax
• PETE CANDOLI, trumpet
• LARRY BUNKER, vibes
• JIMMY ROWLES, piano
• RED MITCHELL, bass
• MEL LEWIS, drums

Hollywood, California, June 20, 1958.

• (**) BONUS ALBUM: TIME WILL TELL
• FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON CD!!!!
• The John Anderson Orchestra featuring:
• Harold Land, Walter Benton, Teddy Edwards (saxes),
• Harry “Sweets” Edison (tp), Buddy Collette (fl),
• Barney Kessel (g), Jack Wilson (p), Bob West (b),
• Mel Lee (d), among others. John Anderson (arr, cond).
• Los Angeles, 1966.

• (*) BONUS TRACKS: From the same session. Not on the original LP.

TRACKS:

• 01. Lullaby of Birdland
• 02. Tea for Two
• 03. All for You
• 04. Body and Soul
• 05. El Tigre
• 06. Cheeta’s for Two
• 07. The Cobra
• 08. East of the Sun
• 09. The Blues
• 10. Perdido
• 11. The Blues [take 1] (*)
• 12. The Blues [take 2] (*)
• 13. Time Will Tell (**)
• 14. Brasilia (**)
• 15. I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face (**)
• 16. Flame on the Desert (**)
• 17. Frantic Fiesta (**)
• 18. The Twister (**)
• 19. Passeone Blues (**)
• 20. A Woman of Stature (**)

• TOTAL TIME: 71:54