Artist: Barney Kessel
Album: Vol. 2: Kessel Plays Standards
Genre: Bop, Cool Jazz
Label: Contemporary/Original Jazz Classics
Released: 1954/1987
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
01. Speak Low (Weill-Nash) - 2:45
02. Love Is Here to Stay (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 3:27
03. On a Slow Boat to China (Loesser) - 3:18
04. How Long Has This Been Going On? (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 3:20
05. My Old Flame (Johnston-Coslow) - 3:40
06. Jeepers Creepers (Mercer-Warren) - 3:51
07. Barney's Blues (Kessel) - 3:00
08. Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington) - 3:13
09. A Foggy Day (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 3:10
10. You Stepped Out of a Dream (Brown-Kahn) - 2:53
11. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Rodgers-Hart) - 3:58
12. 64 Bars on Wilshire (Kessel) - 3:17
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Personnel:
Barney Kessel - guitar
Bob Cooper - oboe, tenor saxophone
Claude Williamson (#1-4,7-9,12), Hampton Hawes (#5,6,10,11) - piano
Monty Budwig (#1-4,7-9,12), Red Mitchell (#5,6,10,11) - bass
Shelly Manne (#1-4,7-9,12), Chuck Thompson (#5,6,10,11) - drums
Guitarist Barney Kessel teams up with Bob Cooper (mostly on oboe but also doubling a bit on tenor), either Claude Williamson or Hampton Hawes on piano, Monty Budwig or Red Mitchell on bass, and Shelly Manne or Chuck Thompson on drums. Other than his own "64 Bars on Wilshire" and "Barney's Blues," the repertoire on this CD reissue is comprised of jazz standards. 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.
Review by Scott Yanow