Barney Kessel, the innovative and influential jazz guitarist known for his lyrical voice and harmonic improvisation, has died. He was 80. A pioneer of the electric guitar, Kessel died Thursday ...

In fact, he may have been one of the most recorded musicians in the history of recorded music. Born Oct. 17, 1923, in Muskogee, Okla., Barney Kessel first came across the guitar while passing a music ...

Disc 2 These three tracks are from the album "Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By," recorded several years after the first two albums. Here Kessel expands his palette of wind instruments to include ...

Barney Kessel lived multiple musical lives during his remarkable career, which saw the Oklahoma-born, San Diego-based guitar master play on a slew of classic jazz, pop and rock records.

Jazz guitarist, arranger, writer and producer Barney Kessel died Thursday (May 6) of brain cancer in San Diego, Calif. He was 80. He had been in ill health since suffering a debilitating stroke in ...

Barney Kessel, a jazz guitarist who played in a number ... and was frequently voted the most popular jazz guitarist in music magazine polls. "Barney was a wonderfully lyrical and melodic player ...

Carnegie Hall, 1952. The Oscar Peterson Trio—featuring Ray Brown on bass and Barney Kessel on guitar—took the stage and delivered a performance of Tenderly that left the audience stunned.

Barney Kessel (1923-2004) was one of the most significant jazz guitarists to emerge from the bebop era in the US, having played with some of the genre’s legends including sax innovators Lester Young ...

Barney Kessel, shown in 1985 ... could be as warm and inviting with his music as he was with his humor. A devotee of the pioneering electric guitarist Charlie Christian, who died in 1942 at ...

Mr. Kessel, a member of the Jazz Hall of Fame, owned Barney Kessel’s Music World in Hollywood from 1967 to 1970, attracting such customers as John Lennon, George Harrison and Eric Clapton.

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