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Compiled & Edited By Steven Herron
Although many guitar players were highly affected by Charlie Christian in the
1940s and 1950s, Barney Kessel was the very first to establish his own
recognizable voice out of the Charlie Christian style. Like Christian, Kessel
was from Oklahoma. Other than three months of guitar lessons, Kessel was
self-taught on guitar. He received early experience playing with regional swing
groups.
After relocating to Los Angeles in 1942, he worked with the Chico Marx
Big Band (1942-43), which was a group put together by Ben Pollack. Found by
Norman Granz, Kessel was featured in the Lester Young short length film "Jammin'
The Blues" in 1944. He worked with the orchestras of Charlie Barnet (1944-45)
and Artie Shaw, likewise having fun performing with Shaw's Gramercy Five.
While he continued to be a boppish soloist, the styles varied from
swing to West Coast jazz. An additional series of recordings teamed him with Ray
Brown and Shelly Manne as The Poll Winners, since they frequently won the
"Downbeat" and "Metronome" polls of that time period. Kessel also made
recordings with Art Tatum and Sonny Rollins.
Barney Kessel Plays "The
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Jazz Guitar Chords & Arpeggio Patterns - Stacy McKee
- This unique book includes 300 jazz guitar chord
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After the Shaw period, Kessel ended up being a studio musician in Los Angeles
while likewise playing bop-oriented jazz in the evening. He made recordings with
Charlie Parker in 1947, toured with Jazz at The Philharmonic, and during 1952-53
was a member of the Oscar Peterson Trio. While he left Peterson after a year to
stick nearby the studios, Kessel taped his most significant recordings in the
1950s making a string of extremely gratifying record albums for Contemporary
Records.
Barney Kessel continued to be prominent on the scene during the next couple of
decades. He appeared on lots of pop recordings including some with The Monkees
and The Beach Boys, regularly developing well-known solos anonymously. He went
on tour with George Wein's Newport All-Stars in 1968 and teamed up with Stephane
Grappelli on several concerts throughout 1969-70. While his later recordings as
a leader typically lack the excitement and enthusiasm of his earlier dates,
Barney Kessel still sounded at his intense best when playing guitar with Herb
Ellis and Charlie Byrd as The Great Guitars during 1974-82.
Kessel's guitar style was firmly rooted in the jazz music of the late thirties
and forties. As one of the crucial transitional jazz guitarists in the period,
his approach naturally embodied the lexicons of the swing and bebop eras. Both
jazz genres exerted a significant influence on his playing. To a lesser extent,
Barney was influenced by the post-bop modal and hard bop movements and
contemporary free jazz.
Barney was an accomplished chord melody stylist and fantastic
single-note soloist. His chord playing exuded the harmonic elegance, differing
structures, and composing acumen of a pianist and orchestra leader. Barney was fond
of the modern polytonal alternatives and chord extensions favored by jazz
keyboardists and frequently worked these into his re-harmonizations of standard
tunes like "Tenderly", "Misty," and "Spring Is Here.".
The blues played a large role in Barney's music. Despite the
heady bop-inflected lines and vibrant harmonic alternatives infused throughout
his improvisations, cool sounding blues licks were also plentiful. Barney used blues elements in both chord
and single-note style. His flowing solo passages were regularly punctuated with
distinct string bending, grooving riff-like patterns, slurred ninth and 7th
chords, and characteristic double stops.
Barney had numerous noteworthy phrasing techniques that made his single-note
improvisations immediately identifiable and individualistic. Prime among these
were the rake-picked smeared arpeggio figures that decorated lots of of his bop
passages. Another significant Kessel signature was the extended guitar line
harmonized in parallel 3rds. Noteworthy was his strong, unflagging sense of
swing when rendering long strings of 8th notes like a wind instrumentalist. A
major stroke put an end to Barney Kessel's jazz guitar playing in 1992, 12 years
prior to his death.
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