Title: To Swing or Not to Swing Artist: Barney Kessel Label: Poll Winners Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 8436028698677 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2011-09-13 Number of Discs: 1
Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the Jazz great's complete original 1955 album to Swing Or Not to Swing. 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, we have added 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. Poll Winners.
Tracks: 1.1 Begin the Blues 1.2 Louisiana 1.3 Happy Feeling 1.4 Embraceable You 1.5 Wail Street 1.6 Indiana 1.7 Moten Swing 1.8 Midnight Sun 1.9 Contemporary Blues 1.10 Don't Blame Me 1.11 12th Street Rag 1.12 Let's Cook 1.13 Time Remembered 1.14 Just in Time 1.15 Love Is Here to Stay 1.16 On a Slow Boat to China 1.17 My Old Flame 1.18 A Foggy Day 1.19 64 Bars on Wilshire
