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Barney Kessel

Barney Kessel

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Birthday Oct 17, 1923
Died May 06, 2004 (80)
Birthplace Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA
Popularity 0.1 (history)
Updated Aug 27, 2025
Entry Date Aug 27, 2025
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In a near six-decade career, he was rated the #1 guitarist in Esquire, Downbeat and Playboy magazine polls between 1947 and 1960. Barney Kessel, a pioneer of the electric guitar and a master of harmonic improvisations, also recorded over fifty albums including a number of innovative albums with drum ... mer Shelly Manne and bassist Ray Brown that were remarkable for the lack of a pianist. He also performed with the Oscar Peterson Trio and ensembles with Charlie Parker, Charlie Barnet, Art Tatum and Artie Shaw, and with performers Elvis Presley, Liberace and The Beach Boys. Leaving the jazz world for studio work, between 1967 and 1970, he operated Barney Kessel's Music World in Hollywood, but, in 1972, he returned to full-time stage work. A stroke in 1992 curtailed his career.

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Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

1967

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Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

1958

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