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. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Kessel Plays Standards
06/04/1954 | Ojc
All Music Guide Review
Kessel Plays Standards Track Listing
Credits of Kessel Plays Standards
- Joe Mondragon
- Bass
- Pete Terry
- Bassoon, Clarinet (Bass)
- Chuck Thompson
- Drums, ?
- Joe Tarantino
- Mastering
- Robert Guidi
- Design, Cover Design
- Tamaki Beck
- Mastering
- Justin Gordon
- Flute, Sax (Tenor)
- Harry Betts
- Trombone
- Monty Budwig
- Bass, ?
- Roy DuNann
- Original Engineering
- Hampton Hawes
- Piano, ?
- Jules Jacobs
- Clarinet, Oboe
- Lester Koenig
- Original Recording Producer
- Buddy Collette
- Clarinet, Flugelhorn
- Bob Cooper
- Oboe, Sax (Tenor), ?
- Victor Feldman
- Vibraphone
- Herb Geller
- Sax (Alto)
- Barney Kessel
- Guitar, Main Performer, Liner Notes, Adaptation
- Shelly Manne
- Drums, ?
- Red Mitchell
- Bass, ?
- André Previn
- Piano
- Ray Linn
- Trumpet
- Bill Smith
- Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass)
- Claude Williamson
- Piano, ?












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