Barney Kessel is a legend in the history of jazz - and one of the most original voices in guitar playing to have ever recorded. Leonard Feather called him, "as lyrical a guitarist as we have heard in jazz... a rhythmical natural who can out swing any man in the house."

This DVD captures almost 30 years of rare performances from 1962 to 1991. Barney is seen playing in a trio setting, solo and with his friends, jazz guitarists Herb Ellis and Charlie Byrd. Andre Previn summed it up best: "Barney has a staggering amount of technique, a healthy respect for the traditional, a ceaseless curiosity for the experimental and an admirable and lovely harmonic sense."

Contents / Song list

GYPSY IN MY SOUL
ONE MINT JULEP
ON A CLEAR DAY
I LOVE YOU
BRAZILIAN BEAT
HERE'S THAT RAINY DAY
MOOSE THE MOOCH
MEDLEY:
   I CAN'T GET STARTED
   SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE
   UNDECIDED
   KINGSTON KUTIES AND SEVEN COME ELEVEN