# Show - Barney Kessel Septet on Contemporary

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Podcast: [Jazz Focus](https://stenobird.com/podcast/jazz-focus-7271548)
Published: 2026-04-06T13:40:55+00:00
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## Resource

Great West Coast/Swing/Mainstream sessions led by guitarist Kessel (who also arranged and composed some of the tunes) for Contemporary Records. The To Swing or Not To Swing album from 1956 featured Harry Edison on trumpet and either Bill Perkins or Georgie Auld on tenor sax with Shelly Manne on drums and Jimmy Rowles on piano. The 1959 Some Like It Hot album has Joe Gordon on trumpet, Art Pepper on alto, tenor and clarinet, Rowles and Manne.

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