#barney kessel

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Barney Kessel would have turned 101 today !!💙

(October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Noted in particular for his knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies, he was a member of many prominent jazz groups as well as a "first call" guitarist for studio, film, and television recording sessions. Kessel was a member of the group of session musicians informally known as the Wrecking Crew.

Django Reinhardt & Barney Kessel 1953 photographed by © Jean-Pierre Leloir

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Larry Coryell: The Godfather of Fusion Jazz

Introduction: Larry Coryell, often referred to as the “Godfather of Fusion,” was a pioneering guitarist whose innovative blend of jazz, rock, and blues revolutionized the jazz world in the 1960s and 1970s. His virtuosic playing and fearless exploration of new musical territories helped define the fusion jazz genre and inspired generations of musicians. In this blog post, we will delve into the…

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17/6/24

tomorrow night - atomic rooster

taken all the good things - stray

out demons out - edgar broughton band

for mad men only - may blitz

back street luv - curved air

(bob stanley & pete wiggs present incident at a free festival)

china's eternal - the tights

good from the bad - skunks

private plane - thomas leer

a c c - robert rental

united - throbbing gristle

do the mussolini (headkick) - cabaret voltaire

(business unusual: the other record collection)

valdez in the country - lee ritenour

guitar player - b b king

django - joe pass

two more for the blues - barney kessel & herb ellis

(guitar player: an album of contemporary styles by modern masters)

pigs (three different ones) ... sheep ... pigs on the wing (part 2) - pink floyd (animals: 2016 remaster)

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Barney Kessel — Kessel's Kit. 1969 : RCA Victor.

! acquire the album ★ attach a coffee !

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1978 - The Great Guitars : Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, Charlie Byrd - Schumann-Saal in Düsseldorf

[dani-xis]

Quando o Roberto Menescal (fundador da Bossa Nova) fala para você escutar um álbum, você escuta.

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Why Don’t Guitarists do THIS More? (feat. Barney Kessel)

Barney Kessel did some great things for guitar. Here is one concept I pulled from his many solos on the “Poll Winners” trio albums. 0:00 intro 1:00 harmonized arpeggios 3:09 7 licks 4:02 slow 7 licks 5:23 thnx

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♫ You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' ♫

As I was writing my a.m. post (a bit of a rant, I must say) I was humming a song by The Supremes — “My World Is Empty Without You”.  I have no idea how I got from the Supremes to the Righteous Brothers in the course of a single hour, but somehow I did.  That’s what falling into a rabbit hole will do to you!  Anyway, I’ve only played this once before way back in 2020, so it’s fair game for a redux…

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Billie Holiday

Body and Soul

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お仕事あとの1枚目「Star Dust」Lionel Hampton '47

１曲目の「スターダスト」のウィリー・スミスのアルトが聴きたくて買ったアルバム。てか、ハンプトンのアルバムのクセにそのスターダストしか参加してません。テキトー。まぁ、バラードなのに32分音符で攻め立てる様はこのアルバムのハイライトとも言えますが。

スミスって1908年生まれで、ハンプトンよりも5歳年上で、このセッションの最年長者。スターダストのテーマだけで大勢の観客が「うぉー！」って歓声が上がっちゃうくらい全て持ってっちゃう。

ケッセルが参加してるのがビックリ。フレーズはブルージーではありますが、一人だけバッピッシュな演奏でかなり斬新。そして、音量上げ過ぎてディストーション掛かってるみたいになって、マイク・スターンみたいになってますw

まるでホーキンスやウェブスターみたいなコーキー・コーコラン(ts)やスラム・スチュワート(b)など、古いスタイルを踏襲したジャズメン達が普通に演奏してた時代ってのが、今や歴史の教科書の中のお話みたいです。僕自身はそれを再現する事に全く興味が無いですけど、伝承する人達は必要だと思っています。僕はニッチなとこに注目して、誰も演ったことの無いプレイをしたいだけなんですけどね。

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Preston Epps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Epps

Preston Epps - Bongo Rock (1959) Preston Epps / Arthur Egnoian (Art Laboe) from: “Bongo Rock” (EP)

Instrumental | Instrumental Rock | Latin

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Preston Epps: Bongos The Wrecking Crew: Barney Kessel: Guitar Rene Hall: Guitar Ernie Freeman: Keyboards Red Callender: Bass Earl Palmer: Drums

Art Laboe

Recorded: @ The Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, California USA during April of 1959

Released: in 1959

Original Sound Records

The Surfaris’ 1963 hit single “Wipe Out” was based on “Bongo Rock”. - Wikipedia

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John Abercrombie: Exploring Sonic Landscapes Through Jazz Guitar

Introduction: John Abercrombie was a legendary jazz guitarist whose inventive style, varied approach, and multi-decade career made a lasting impression on the music. Abercrombie was born on December 16, 1944, seventy-nine years ago today in Port Chester, New York. His path in the jazz world is characterized by a genuine devotion to the art form, a persistent study of sonic landscapes, and a…

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Larry Williams - She Said Yeah

‘Larry Williams (May 10, 1935  January 7, 1980) was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana. Williams is best known for writing and recording some rock and roll classics from 1957 to 1959 for Specialty Records, including "Bony Moronie", "Short Fat Fannie", "Bad Boy", "Dizzy Miss Lizzie" and "She Said Yeah," which were later covered by British Invasion groups and other artists. John Lennon, in particular, was a fan of Williams, recording several of his songs over the course of his career. "Bony Maronie" is listed as one of the Top 500 songs that shaped Rock and Roll. 

Williams lived a life mixed with tremendous success and violence-fueled drug addiction. He was a long-time friend of Little Richard. As a child in New Orleans, Williams learned how to play piano. When he was a teenager, he and his family moved to Oakland, California, where he joined a local R&B group called the Lemon Drops. In 1954, when he was 19 years old, Williams went back to New Orleans for a visit. He began work as Lloyd Price's valet and developed a friendship with Little Richard Penniman, who was recording at the time in New Orleans. Price and Penniman were both recording for Specialty Records at the time. Williams was introduced to Specialty's house producer, Robert Blackwell, and was signed to record. 

 In 1957, Little Richard was Specialty's biggest star, but bolted from Rock and Roll to pursue the ministry. Williams was quickly groomed by Blackwell to try to replicate his success. Using the same raw, shouting vocals and piano-driven intensity, Williams scored with a number of hit singles. Williams' three biggest successes were "Short Fat Fannie", which was his first hit, reaching #5 in Billboard's pop chart, "High School Dance", which also made #5, and "Bony Moronie", which peaked at #14. Both "Short Fat Fanny" and "Bony Moronie" sold over one million copies, gaining gold discs. Several of his songs achieved later success as revivals by The Beatles ("Bad Boy", "Slow Down", and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"); The Rolling Stones ("She Said Yeah"); and John Lennon's versions of "Bony Moronie" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy". 

 Williams had been involved with underworld activity since his early teens, and had reputedly been a pimp before he ever recorded music. After 1957 Williams did not have much success selling records. He recorded a number of songs in 1958 and 1959, including "Heebie Jeebies", with band members such as Plas Johnson on tenor sax and Alvin "Red" Tyler on baritone, Barney Kessel on guitar, Gerald Wilson on trumpet, Ernie Freeman or Williams himself on piano, and Earl Palmer on drums. He was convicted of dealing narcotics in 1960 and served a jail term, setting back his career considerably. 

 Williams made a comeback in the mid-1960s with a funky soul band that included Johnny "Guitar" Watson, which paired him musically with Little Richard who had been lured back into secular music. He produced two Little Richard albums for Okeh Records in 1966 and 1967, which returned Little Richard to the Billboard album chart for the first time in ten years and spawned the hit single Poor Dog. He also acted as the music director for the Little Richard's live performances at the Okeh Club. Bookings for Little Richard during this period skyrocketed. Williams also recorded and released material of his own and with Watson, with some moderate chart success. This period may have garnered few hits but produced some of his best and most original work.  

Williams also began acting in the 1960s, appearing on film in Just for the Hell of It (1968), The Klansman (1974), and Drum (1976). 

 In the 1970s, there was also a brief dalliance with disco, but Williams' wild lifestyle continued. By the middle of the decade, the drug abuse and violence was taking its toll. In 1977, Williams pulled a gun on and threatened to kill his long-time friend, Little Richard, over a drug debt. They were both living in Los Angeles and addicted to cocaine. Little Richard bought drugs from him, arranged to pay him later, but did not show up because he was high. Williams was furious. He hunted him down but ended up showing compassion on his long-time friend after Little Richard repaid the debt. This, along with other factors, led to Little Richard's return to born again Christianity and the ministry, but Williams would not escape LA's seedy underworld.'

 SOURCE: Wikipedia 

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Song of the Day - “Willow Weep For Me” Today marks the 70th anniversary of the recording of this beauty of a standard by Billie Holiday- September 3rd, 1954. Billie was backed by Willie Smith on sax, Harry Edison on trumpet, Bobby Tucker on piano, Red Calendar on bass, Chico Hamilton on drums, and Barney Kessel on guitar. This was Billie’s last album on Clef Records before it would be absorbed into Verve Records. This album was released in 1956 in conjunction with Billie’s ghost-written memoir of the same title… This title would also become the title of the biographical movie about Billie, with Diana Ross, which was made in 1972. This song,“Willow Weep For Me”, both music and lyrics, was written in 1932 by Ann Ronell. Ronell was one of the very first accepted female songwriters in both Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley. She wrote movie scores as well as a Broadway musical. She worked for George Gershwin and dedicated this song to him, which oddly was off-putting to the publishers she pitched it to, for some reason. It was apparently frowned upon to do that. So, due to that, and also to the melody’s kinda complex construction, the song was rejected repeatedly before finally being accepted. It became a standard of the era, and was Ann Ronell’s greatest gift and moment. The song was covered by dozens of great artists - from Sinatra to Nina Simone to the Coasters to Chad and Jeremy, to Oscar Peterson to Sam Cooke, to Steve Miller to Dexter Gordon, to Vince Guaraldi, to Red Garland… But this version can have a good case made to be the best… The melancholy waltz is made for Billie’s voice. What a precious gift this one is.

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Billie Holiday – Billie Holiday Sings

Billie Holiday Sings is a 10-inch LP album made by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in the United States by Clef Records in 1952.

Billie Holiday – vocals Charlie Shavers – trumpet Flip Phillips – tenor saxophone Oscar Peterson – piano Ray Brown – double bass Barney Kessel – guitar Alvin Stoller – drums