jazz & world music new releases - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
jazz & world music new releases - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
jazz & world music new releases - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
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Label: Poll Winners Records<br />
File Under: Jazz<br />
Catalogue No: PWR27278<br />
Barcode: 8436028698677<br />
Format: 1 CD<br />
Packaging: cristal<br />
Barney Kessel, guitar<br />
Harry “Sweets” Edison, trumpet<br />
Georgie Auld, tenor sax (on 2, 6-7 & 11)<br />
Bill Perkins, tenor sax (on 3, 5 & 9)<br />
Jimmy Rowles, piano<br />
Al Hendrickson, rhythm guitar<br />
Red Mitchell, bass<br />
Irv Cottler, drums (on 2, 6-7 & 11)<br />
Shelly Manne, drums (on 3, 5 & 9)<br />
To Swing Or Not To Swing<br />
Barney Kessel<br />
RELEASE DATE<br />
5TH SEPTEMBER 2011<br />
Barney Kessel’s complete original 1955 album To Swing or Not to Swing (Contemporary C3513). This fantastic LP<br />
features Kessel swinging along with Harry “Sweets” Edison, Bill Perkins and Shelly<br />
Manne, and also showcases the guitarist on four tracks backed only by the rhythm section.<br />
As a bonus, we have added a complete 1957 quintet session that also features Shelly Manne, as well as five further<br />
tracks which find Kessel in quintet (with Bob Cooper on tenor sax), quartet and duo formats.<br />
Includes 16-page booklet<br />
“To Swing or Not to Swing is an album that should bring pleasure so long as there are <strong>jazz</strong>-oriented ears to hear.<br />
Rhythmically, this is one of the happiest recordings of recent years and is a particularly graphic aural definition of the<br />
verb ‘to swing’. As for melodic and harmonic conception, everyone is in very good form, with the most memorable kicks<br />
from Edison and Kessel.”<br />
***** Downbeat (Nat Hentoff)
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