Barney Kessel

4 STARS DOWN BEAT MAGAZINE - 4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

INCLUDES 5 BONUS TRACKS

This release presents Barney Kessel’s complete original 1959 album Some Like it Hot (Contemporary CS7565) This fantastic LP presents Kessel swinging along with the great Art Pepper, ill-fatted trumpeter Joe Gordon, pianist Jimmy Rowles and drummer Shelly Manne, among others. As a bonus, a complete extremely rare 1956 quartet session by Kessel with Rowles again at the piano, taken from the soundtrack on a TV show, which appears here ON CD FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER

PERSONNEL:

BARNEY KESSEL, guitar
ART PEPPER, alto & tenor sax, clarinet
JOE GORDON, trumpet
JIMMY ROWLES, piano
JACK MARSHALL, guitar
MONTY BUDWIG, bass
SHELLY MANNE, drums

Los Angeles, March 30 - 31 & April 3, 1959.
Tracks 3 & 9 are duets by Kessel and bassist Monty Budwig

[13-15] BONUS TRACKS (on CD for the first time ever):

BARNEY KESSEL, guitar
JIMMY ROWLES, piano
LEROY VINNEGAR, bass
IRV KLUGER, drums
TV Show soundtracks. Los Angeles, October 8, 1956.

STEREO - 24-BIT DIGITALLY REMASTERED

TRACKS:

01. Some Like It Hot
02. I Wanna Be Loved By You
03. Stairway To The Stars
04. Sweet Sue
05. Runnin’ Wild
06. Sweet Georgia Brown
07. Down Among The Sheltering Palms
08. Sugar Blues
09. I’m Thru With Love
10. By The Beautiful Sea
11. Sweet Sue [Alternate Take]*
12. Runnin’ Wild [Alternate Take] *
13. Fascinating Rhythm **
14. Laura**
15. The Abc Blues **

Total Time: 57:50
* From the same sessions, not on the original LP