#BARNEY KESSEL HOW TO#
It had a little book with it, that I believed at the time-" How To Play The Guitar In Five Minutes." I really thought I could.įor the most part, I've been self-taught on the guitar from the beginning. I saved up enough money to buy a very modest-priced guitar. The look, the shape of them kinda fascinated me. I was a newsboy, selling papers on a business corner, and there was a store there that had some guitars in the window. It was quite by accident, really, that I became a guitarist. I left home and left school at the age of 14 to become a professional musician. But by the time I was 14, I was making my living at music-most of it jazz music. When I started playing the guitar at 12, I played cowboy music for about a year. I didn't sing well, and I didn't concentrate too much on the academic side of music in school. However, I was not really a good music student. I had been exposed to music in public school, through singing and music appreciation. He also talked about touring for Norman Granz and visiting London in the 1950s, and about the West Coast jazz that he is often associated with. In 1968 guitarist Barney Kessel talked to Les Tomkins about his early life and career including time with Chico Marx, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Oscar Peterson and others. He is often considered one of the most complete inheritors of Charlie Christian’s pioneer bop guitar style, which he smoothed and polished with the kind of search for perfection which his studio work must have demanded.
#BARNEY KESSEL MANUALS#
Kessel taught guitar privately, led workshops and wrote instruction manuals for guitarists. In that year his public playing activities were brought to an end by a stroke. In the 1970s he formed the Great Guitars quintet with fellow guitarists Charlie Byrd and Herb Ellis, which made international appearances and recorded until 1992. He lived in London for a year (1969–70) and toured in continental Europe. At the end of the 1960s, after a successful European tour with George Wein’s Newport All Stars, Kessel devoted himself exclusively to the jazz side of his career, his prominence having already been firmly established by his recorded work, extensive touring, and club and concert appearances over two decades. However, during that period he also toured widely with Oscar Peterson (in 1952–3), made many recordings, and played in clubs with his own groups. Until the late 1960s his studio work supported his jazz career. Kessel, a virtuoso guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, enjoyed a long career which established him as one of the foremost jazz improvisers on his instrument, as well as a highly successful studio guitarist in radio, TV and film.
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