Shelly Manne, Barney Kessel & Ray Brown

The Poll Winners

I had so much fun listening to this after I dug through RYM and found it today. It was a pretty mild and cool overcast evening here in the Metroplex and I just threw it on in my room with the windows open and everything. No record was more perfect for the moment.

Instrumentally, it's a pretty rhythmically driven jazz work. The "high-end" of this, if you will, ('cause there's no syrupy aerophone instruments to glue each song's flow together) is Barney Kessel's guitar, which ... read more