The Essential Albums 1955 - 1963

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Begin the Blues
  4:28
• 2
  Louisiana
  3:56
• 3
  Happy Feeling
  3:57
• 4
  Embraceable You
  3:24
• 5
  Wail Street
  4:25
• 6
  Indiana
  3:13
• 7
  Moten Swing
  3:58
• 8
  Midnight Sun
  4:09
• 9
  Contemporary Blues
  4:09
• 10
  Don’t Blame Me
  2:58
• 11
  12th Street Rag
  2:59
• 12
  Easy Like
  4:04
• 13
  Tenderly
  3:16
• 14
  Lullaby of Birdland
  3:09
• 15
  What Is There to Say?
  3:35
• 16
  Bernardo
  2:37
• 17
  Vicky’s Dream
  2:53
• 18
  Salute to Christian
  3:18
• 19
  That’s All
  4:11
• 20
  I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
  3:40
• 21
  Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don’t Tease Me)
  3:00
• 22
  April in Paris
  2:46
• 23
  North of the Border
  2:45
• CD 2
• 1
  Cheerful Little Earful
  3:29
• 2
  Makin’ Whoopee
  3:22
• 3
  My Reverie
  2:35
• 4
  Blues for a Playboy
  4:03
• 5
  Love Is for the Very Young
  2:30
• 6
  Carioca
  4:36
• 7
  Mountain Greenery
  3:50
• 8
  Indian Summer
  5:03
• 9
  Gone With the Wind
  2:47
• 10
  Laura
  3:26
• 11
  I Love You
  3:32
• 12
  Fascinating Rhythm
  2:30
• 13
  Swingin’ the Toreador
  5:52
• 14
  A Pad on the Edge of Town
  6:46
• 15
  If You Dig Me
  4:04
• 16
  Free as a Bird
  5:00
• 17
  Viva El Toro!
  3:15
• 18
  Flowersville
  6:00
• 19
  Carmen’s Cool
  4:43
• 20
  Like, There’s No Place Like…
  3:59
• CD 3
• 1
  Some Like It Hot
  4:21
• 2
  I Wanna Be Loved by You
  3:43
• 3
  Stairway to the Stars
  3:19
• 4
  Sweet Sue
  4:46
• 5
  Runnin’ Wild
  3:23
• 6
  Sweet Georgia Brown
  3:44
• 7
  Down Among the Sheltering Palms
  4:06
• 8
  Sugar Blues
  3:29
• 9
  I’m Thru With Love
  3:19
• 10
  By the Beautiful Sea
  3:12
• 11
  Little Susie
  3:56
• 12
  The Duke
  4:54
• 13
  So What
  5:28
• 14
  Misty
  3:27
• 15
  Doodlin’
  3:33
• 16
  The Golden Striker
  3:22
• 17
  Li’l Darlin’
  5:29
• 18
  The Blessing
  4:49
• 19
  This Here
  6:36
• CD 4
• 1
  Let’s Cook
  11:21
• 2
  Time Remembered
  4:21
• 3
  Just in Time
  5:00
• 4
  Tiger Rag
  9:17
• 5
  Jersey Bounce
  9:33
• 6
  Bluesology
  9:15
• 7
  Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
  4:51
• 8
  Joy Spring
  6:50
• 9
  Now’s the Time
  8:17
• 10
  Miss Memphis
  6:27
• 11
  New Rhumba
  7:14

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Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot 1959

Something Bigger

Something Bigger 2021

Live At The Jazz Mill 1954, Vol. 2

Live At The Jazz Mill 1954, Vol. 2 2018

Barney Kessel: Live at the Jazz Mill 1954

Barney Kessel: Live at the Jazz Mill 1954 2017

Contemporary Records Vol.2

Contemporary Records Vol.2 2016

Quartet & Quintet !!!

Quartet & Quintet !!! 2012

Release credits

• Al Hendrickson
  guitar [2]
• André Previn
  piano [13]
• Barney Kessel
  arranger [13], guitar [2.13, 1.2]
• Bill Smith
  reeds [13]
• Buddy Collette
  woodwind [13]
• Georgie Auld
  tenor saxophone [2]
• Harry “Sweets” Edison
  trumpet [2]
• Irv Cottler
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Jimmy Rowles
  piano [2]
• Joe Mondragon
  double bass [13]
• John Palladino
  engineer [2]
• Jules Jacob
  woodwind [13]
• Justin Gordon
  woodwind [13]
• Lester Koenig
  producer [2.13, 1.2]
• Pete Terry
  wind instruments [13]
• Red Mitchell
  bass [2], double bass [2]
• Roy DuNann
  sound [13]
• Shelly Manne
  drums (drum set) [13]
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Issues

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  The Essential Albums 1955 - 1963

  4x CD
  2022