Poll Winners Three!

Poll Winners Three! Artist: Barney Kessel with Shelly Manne and Ray Brown
Label: Ojc
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 025218669221
EAN: 0025218669221
ASIN: B000000YWI


Release Date: 1992-02-17

Related Categories:

Bebop General Bebop General
Related | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music
Cool Jazz Cool Jazz
Related | Jazz | Styles | Music
General General
Related | Jazz | Styles | Music
General General
Related | Pop | Styles | Music

Listmania:

  1. Jazz Guitar, 1950-1970

Tracks:

  1. Soft Winds
  2. Crisis
  3. The Little Rhumba
  4. Easy Living
  5. It's All Right With Me
  6. Mack The Knife
  7. Raincheck
  8. Minor Mystery
  9. I'm Afaid The Masquerade Is Over
  10. I Hear Music

Similar Items:

  1. The Poll Winners Ride Again
  2. The Poll Winners
  3. Poll Winners: Exploring the Scene
  4. Easy Like, Vol. 1
  5. Barney Kessel, Vol. 3: To Swing or Not to Swing

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A winner album.......2004-08-03

I heard that Barney Kessel passed away last may. This is the right occasion to tribute his talent rewieving this album. 1959 was running when this album was released. Just two years were passed since the Jazz zenith, 1957, but the freshness was still there. At least in the hands of these three poll winners, Barney, Ray and Shelly for sure. What separate this guitar /doublebass/ drums trio from trios of the same category are two things. Fantasy and fun. Fantasy because these three giants approach every tune with a different mind, contributing with fresh harmonic, melodic and moreover rythmical ideas, so the tune still if it is a well known standard finds new life. Few guitar based trios have the ability to sound fresh and inventive. The guitar has some idiosyncrasis which make it difficult for the guitarist to be interesting as a band leader. Only few did it successfully, Montgomery, Kessel,.. very, very few. The second is fun. Jazz surely should be deep musically but it should be funny too. These guys never forget this rule. They create interest, they are always ironic, and more than anything else they don't ever forget to swing hard. A special mention should be done to Barney because he has in the trio format, the greatest weight to carry. I don't want to steal you the surprise of hearing for yourself what were able to create these guys, talking about the tunes contained here. It will be enough to say that these guys were winners, and rightly so.

4 out of 5 stars The Three-Peat is a Bit of a Repeat.......2004-02-01

As the reviews below are not very helpful, I will try to contribute one that is. As I have indicated in my reviews of the first two Poll Winners CDs, Guitarist Barney Kessel, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne were the people's choice on their instruments in the late 1950s. Since they had recorded together in the past (with a variety of frontmen), it was only natural that they try to reap the financial rewards of their popularity by forming the Poll Winners Trio. Their third album, "Poll Winners Three!" recorded on November 2, 1959, is perfectly good but the formula of running through the standards of the day is getting a bit repetitive. The album's three originals, "Crisis," "The Little Rhumba," and "Minor Mystery" contributed by Kessel, Manne and Brown respectively, offer some differentiation, and the performances of "Soft Winds" and "Easy Living" are excellent, but the true spirit of these trio collaborations are best captured on the first two albums. "Three!" and "Exploring the Scene" are certainly less about cashing in than their 1975 reunion album "The Straight Ahead," but for my money I would start at "poll" position.

5 out of 5 stars The best of the best.......2001-11-12

All of the pollwinners recordings are great, but this one really stands out. The tunes and the playing is so hip. Ray, Manne, and Kessel where really at their best.

5 out of 5 stars Don't dare to miss it!!!.......2001-05-31

5 stars? 50 stars!! From the first note of the smooth "Soft winds" right to the end of the end of the grooving "I hear Music" you won't be able stop listening. What an album...

Music CD:

  1. Tales ~ Marcus Miller
  2. George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess ~ Clark Terry, Jeff Lindberg & the Chicago Jazz Orchestra
  3. All My Life ~ Maysa
  4. Out of the Cool ~ Gil Evans Orchestra
  5. Bump City ~ Tower of Power
  6. Reckless Precision ~ Tuck Andress
  7. Livin' Inside Your Love ~ George Benson
  8. Virgin Ubiquity: Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981 ~ Roy Ayers
  9. The Urban Grooves: Album II ~ Down to the Bone
  10. Trio Jeepy ~ Branford Marsalis

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Black or Ya White ~ Posse NFX

Nightsongs ~ Stars

Welcome to Mexico Asshole ~ Pigface

Bluestring ~ Bluestring

Swollen & Tender ~ Umajets

Mockingbird ~ Barclay James Harvest

Alive

A Date with Elvis ~ Elvis Presley

Fear of a Black Tangent ~ Busdriver

The Predator ~ Ice Cube