Hardbopjazz Posted June 7, 2017 Report Share Posted June 7, 2017 I just ordered a copy of this Barney Kessel CD. It has Gran Green and Kenny Burrell on it. Anyone here have this? How is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 7, 2017 Report Share Posted June 7, 2017 The cuts with Burrell & Green must be CD bonus cuts for this release. The original core material was a Phil Spector-related album called On Fire, and it's pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted O'Reilly Posted June 7, 2017 Report Share Posted June 7, 2017 That's been around for several years, on Gambit. The original 1965 LP release on Emerald is tracks 1-7, with Jerry Scheff on electric bass, and drummer Frankie Capp. It was a very fine record, but I don't think Spector had anything to do with it other than his company distributed it. There are 3 sessions added to that: Kessel and Larry Ridley (b) and Don Lamond (d) from 'Denmark' on a single track, likely during a George Wein tour. There are similar others, but all done in England, so Denmark may be a pirate's diversion. Kessel is heard on three tracks from a Swedish TV show but the bassist and drummer are unknown. At the same time he recorded with Sture Nordin on bass and drummer Pelle Hulten so they're probabilities, I'd suggest. A final track has Burrell and Green joining Kessel at Ronnie Scott's in 1969 for a scrappy seven-and-a-half minute blues that I'd say is for fans only, I'd say. It would have been fun to be there, but... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 7, 2017 Report Share Posted June 7, 2017 1 hour ago, Ted O'Reilly said: ...I don't think Spector had anything to do with it other than his company distributed it. I've heard that Spector "made the record happen" out of admiration for Kessel as a guitarist in general, and as a valued contributor to so many of his sessions in particular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted O'Reilly Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 10 hours ago, JSngry said: I've heard that Spector "made the record happen" out of admiration for Kessel as a guitarist in general, and as a valued contributor to so many of his sessions in particular. ...Very well could be. I'm sure Barney was on lots of Spector's sessions. I've never heard of Specotr having any particular interest in jazz though. I wonder if he did? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 I don't know if Spector was really a "jazz fan", but it does seem to me that I recall him being a guitarist of sorts himself, so between that and seeing Kessel up close and in action on any number of occasions, I think it would be safe to say that he was an admirer. Spector was not a total musical illiterate, I know that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 My memory is that the guitar solo on the Drifter's "On Broadway" is Phil, and that he once expressed an interest in producing Sonny Rollins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted O'Reilly Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 2 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said: My memory is that the guitar solo on the Drifter's "On Broadway" is Phil, and that he once expressed an interest in producing Sonny Rollins. Maybe Trane: "Sheets Of Sound" meets "Wall Of Sound"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 Bridge Over Troubled Walls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 Supposedly the guitar solo is Phil. If you listen to it, it's pretty tinny sounding guitar. Perhaps it was an ironic comment that the protagonist of the song won't make it "on Broadway" because he can't "play this here guitar". Or perhaps it was just Phil's ego getting in the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 If you can separate Spector's outsized ego/aggression from his equally outsized insecurities (self-loathing?), you're doing better than me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted June 11, 2017 Report Share Posted June 11, 2017 I think it was just that Phil was there, and someone needed to play that there guitar, so he did. IMHO, the solo works well enuff in the context of that record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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