Barney Kessel - Kessel Plays Standards (1954)

Tracklist

1. Speak Low 2:45
2. Love is Here to Stay 3:26
3. On a Slow Boat to China 3:18
4. How Long Has This Been Going On? 3:19
5. My Old Flame 3:39
6. Jeepers Creepers 3:51
7. Barney's Blues 3:00
8. Prelude to a Kiss 3:13
9. A Foggy Day 3:10
10. You Stepped Out of a Dream 2:53
11. I Didn't Know What Time it Was 3:57
12. 64 Bars on Wilshire 3:17

personnel :

Barney Kessel - guitar
Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone, oboe
Claude Williamson - piano
Hampton Hawes - piano
Monty Budwig - bass
Red Mitchell - bass
Chuck Thompson - drums
Shelly Manne - 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. ~ Scott Yanow