El Tigre - Barney & Harold Land Kessel - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

All of the studio collaborations by the great tenor player Harold Land and guitar master Barney Kessel. The first album, El Tigre (Charlie Parker Records PLP-832), was also issued under Jimmy Rowles’ name with the no-less-florid-title of Let’s Get Acquainted With Jazz...For People Who Hate Jazz! (Interlude ST-1012). Although all of it was recorded on the same date, Harold Land and trumpeter Pete Candoli alternate as the only horns on the various tracks, but they never play a note together! Two alternative takes of “The Blues,” not on the original album, have been added, as well as the complete 1966 album Time Will Tell (Tangerine Records TRC-1506), an absolute rarity appearing here for the first time ever on CD. A big band LP (also featuring such stars as Harry “Sweets” Edison, Teddy Edwards and Buddy Collette), this is the only other existing Kessel-Land collaboration, with the sole exception of a single version of “Cool Blues” recorded live in Pasadena in 1975.

BARNEY KESSEL, guitar HAROLD LAND, tenor sax PETE CANDOLI, trumpet LARRY BUNKER, vibes JIMMY ROWLES, piano RED MITCHELL, bass MEL LEWIS, drums Hollywood, California, June 20, 1958. BONUS TRACKS: From the same session. Not on the original LP. BONUS ALBUM: Time Will Tell - FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON CD!!!! The John Anderson Orchestra featuring Harold Land, Walter Benton, Teddy Edwards (saxes), Harry “Sweets” Edison (tp), Buddy Collette (fl), Barney Kessel (g), Jack Wilson (p), Bob West (b), Mel Lee

Tracklist

1. Lullaby of Birdland
2. Tea For Two
3. All For You
4. Body and Soul
5. El Tigre
6. Cheeta's For Two
7. The Cobra
8. East of the Sun
9. The Blues
10. Perdido
11. The Blues (Bonus Track)
12. The Blues (Bonus Track)
13. Time Will Tell (Bonus Track)
14. Brasilia (Bonus Track)
15. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face (Bonus Track)
16. Flame On the Desert (Bonus Track)
17. Frantic Fiesta (Bonus Track)
18. The Twister (Bonus Track)
19. Passeone Blues (Bonus Track)
20. A Woman of Stature (Bonus Track)

Label: Essential Jazz Classics | Origin: Holland

📌 Incl. Bonus Album: Time Will Tell