One of the most prolific jazz guitarists in L.A. was Barney Kessel. In the late 1950s, he was recording for Contemporary. The beauty of the label, in addition to the sterling taste and impeccable ...

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 ...

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 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. The new ...

This may well have been correct because Kessel was known for having a great musical ear. He first put this to use when he spotted a guitar in a music shop window on his paper round in Muskogee.

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.

Barney Kessel was one of the shining lights on the west coast jazz scene - equally revered as both an improviser and Hollywood session musician. This week, we're exploring one of his early albums ...

This Day in Music 2004 - Jazz guitarist, arranger, writer and producer Barney Kessel dies of brain cancer in San Diego, Calif. He is 80.

They were guitarist Barney Kessel, drummer Shelley Manne and double bassist Ray Brown. All three were largely associated with the west coast jazz scene, and the trio all rooted themselves in the ...

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, a pioneer of bebop guitar and a leading figure in the West Coast jazz of the 1950s and ’60s, died May 6 of brain cancer. He was 80. As front man and a featured artist, he recorded ...

Tonight on Afterglow it’s “Barney Kessel’s Some Like It Hot,” focusing on the guitarist’s tribute to jazz used in the 1959 Tony Curtis-Jack Lemmon comedy. Music from singer Marilyn Scott ...