To Swing Or Not To Swing

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Album Info

Release Date: 2011

Label: Poll Winners Records

"The Most Influential Jazz Albums According To The Critics Of Down Beat Magazine.
16-page booklet.
This release presents Barney Kessel´s complete original 1955 album "To Swing Or Not To Swing" (Contemporary C3513). As a bonus, we have added a complete 1957 quintet session that also features Shelly Manne, as well as five further tracks which find Kessel in quitet (with Bob Cooper on tenor sax), quartet and duo formats.

Recording dates (in Los Angeles): March 28, 1955 and July 26, 1955
Bonus Tracks 12-14: November 11, 1957
Bonus Tracks 16 & 18: June 4, 1954
Bonus Tracks 15 & 19: July 1, 1954
Bonus Tracks 17: September 12, 1955

Original album tracks (01-11) are mono recordings.