The Barney Kessel Trio - "Musicalmente con" TV Show.

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States and Canada.

Jazz.

Americans.

Local Subjects:

United States and Canada.

Jazz.

Americans.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (43 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 1978.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Barney Kessel is a major figure in the pantheon of jazz guitarists. One of the top sidemen, we have heard him play with Oscar Peterson, Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins, Oliver Nelson, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, and many others. He was also a renowned accompanist for female singers; he was on guitar on Julie London's famous hit "Cry Me a River," played for a long time with Billie Holiday and Anita O'Day, and recorded with Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. Noticed as a great bop guitarist — in his early days, he copied Charlie Christian, swearing by him alone — he nevertheless explored more popular and even classical repertoires (with his album of Georges Bizet's Carmen). Barney Kessel migrated from Oklahoma to California, making a career in Los Angeles, playing with West Coast jazz figures, and releasing more and more albums in trio, quartet and other bands. For this concert recorded in Italy, Barney Kessel was accompanied by two English musicians — Jim Richardson on electric bass and Tony Mann on drums — for a set of standards where the guitarist, in the foreground, showed the extent of his talent as a soloist in the bop tradition, of which he was a main proponent throughout his life. Florent Servia

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2024).