(Bop) Great Guitars - Коллекция - 1975-1998 (7 альбомов) (w/ Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Mundell Lowe, Larry Coryell, Tal Farlow), MP3, 192-320 kbps

Call it a gimmick if you will, but the Great Guitars super trio of Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, and Herb Ellis made some great music.
The concept came by accident. Byrd’s own trio was booked on a joint tour with Kessel’s group. “We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song,” Byrd said in an interview recalling the tour. “That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.”
Add Herb Ellis, and Great Guitars was born. The trio released its self-titled debut album in 1974, followed by Return of the Great Guitars with Mundell Lowe replacing the retired Kessel.
The original trio also released two other live LPs, which are now together on this two-CD set: At the Winery (1980) and At Charlie’s Georgetown (1983). The group dances through covers of classics like “Air Mail Special,” “Sheik of Araby,” “When the Saints Go Marching In,” and more, blending Byrd’s latin-tinged classical guitar with Kessel’s Charlie Christian-inflections and Ellis’ bebop licks. It’s good stuff.

Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - Great Guitars
Год издания диска: 1975
Продолжительность: 37:32
Треклист:
01. Undecided (Shavers) - 6:50
02. O Barquinho (Menescal-Boscoli) - 4:56
03. Slow Burn (Kessel) - 5:42
04. Topsy (Christian-Goodman) - 6:32
05. Latin Groove (Kessel) - 4:54
06. Down Home Blues (Ellis-Kessel) - 4:24
07. H and B Guitar Boogie (Ellis-Kessel) - 4:14
Состав:
Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - guitar
Joe Byrd - bass
John Rae - drums
Recorded live at Concord Boulevard Park, Concord, CA.

Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - Great Guitars II
Год издания диска: 1995
Продолжительность: 39:40
Треклист:
01. Lover (Rodgers-Hart) - 5:32
02. Makin' Whoopee (Donaldson-Kahn) - 5:09
03. Body and Soul (Green-Heyman-Sour-Eyton) - 2:59
04. Cow Cow Boogie (Carter-DePaul-Raye) - 3:52
05. Amparo (Jobim) - 4:13
06. Outer Drive (Ellis) - 5:35
07. On Green Dolphin Street (Kaper-Washington) - 3:12
08. Medley: Nuages (Reinhardt)/Goin' Out of My Head (Weinstein-Randazzo)/Flying Home (Goodman-Hampton-Robin) - 9:08
Состав:
Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel - guitar
Joe Byrd - bass
Wayne Phillips - drums
Recorded in Los Angeles in April, 1976.

Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - Great Guitars at the Winery
Год издания диска: 2001 (Great Guitars Live CD1)
Продолжительность: 44:28
Треклист:
01. Broadway (DeSylva-Brown-Henderson) - 5:44
02. Air Mail Special (Mundy-Goodman-Christian) - 4:55
03. Body and Soul (Green-Heyman-Sour-Eyton) - 4:51
04. You Took Advantage of Me (Rodgers-Hart) - 2:53
05. So Danco Samba (Jobim-De Moraes) - 4:31
06. Sheik of Araby (Smith-Wheeler-Snyder) - 5:26
07. Strighten Up and Fly Right (Cole-Mills) - 5:44
08. Just in Time (Comden-Green-Styne) - 3:37
09. The Talk of the Town (Kahn-Cohn) - 6:47
Состав:
Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - guitar
Joe Byrd - bass
Jimmie Smith - drums
Recorded live at the Paul Masson Mountain Winery, Saratoga, CA in July 1980.

Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - Great Guitars at Charlie's Georgetown
Год издания диска: 1982 (Great Guitars Live CD2)
Продолжительность: 49:03
Треклист:
01. Where or When (Rodgers-Hart) - 4:38
02. New Orleans (Carmichael) - 6:47
03. When the Saints Go Marching In (Trad.) - 3:14
04. Change Partners (Berlin) - 3:59
05. Pensive (Cohn) - 5:49
06. Opus One (Oliver) - 4:28
07. Old Folks (Hill-Robison) - 4:26
08. Get Happy (Arlen-Koehler) - 5:56
09. Danielle (Cohn) - 3:46
10. Trouble in Mind (Jones) - 6:00
Состав:
Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - guitar
Joe Byrd - bass
Chuck Redd - drums
Recorded live at Charlie's Georgetown, Washington D.C. in August 1982.

Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Mundell Lowe, Larry Coryell - The Return of the Great Guitars
Год издания диска: 1996
Продолжительность: 59:28
Треклист:
01. Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Ellington-Persons) - 4:55
02. When Lights Are Low (Carter-Williams) - 4:16
03. A Smooth One (Christian-Goodman) - 4:30
04. My Funny Valentine (Rodgers-Hart) - 5:15
05. The Lady in Red (Dixon-Wrubel) - 4:25
06. Soft Winds (Goodman) - 3:52
07. Bernie's Tune (Leiber-Miller-Stoller) - 4:27
08. I Remember You (Mercer-Schertzinger) - 4:45
09. Waltz for Wes (Holmes) - 4:32
10. Seven Come Eleven (Christian-Goodman) - 4:37
11. Billy Bean! (Coryell) - 4:30
12. Nigh Roby Get-A-Way (Lowe) - 4:35
13. On the Trail (Grofe) - 4:49
Состав:
Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Mundell Lowe, Larry Coryell - guitar
John Goldsby - bass
Tim Horner - drums
Recorded at Sound On Sound Studios, New York on February 14-15, 1996.

Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow - Great Guitars of Jazz: In Concert
Год издания диска: 1997
Продолжительность: 79:20
Треклист:
01. Seven Come Eleven (Goodman-Christian) - 6:17
02. Georgia (On My Mind) (Carmichael-Gorrell) - 5:30
03. Angel Eyes (Dennis-Brent) - 3:55
04. Interview with Tal Farlow - 0:50
05. Jumpin' at the Woodside (Basie) - 5:15
06. Interview with Charlie Byrd, Pt.1 - 1:15
07. Blue Skies (Berlin) - 6:26
08. Deed I Do (Hirsch-Rose) - 4:31
09. Embraceable You (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 5:17
10. Interview with Herb Ellis - 1:13
11. Undecided (Shavers-Robin) - 7:19
12. Interview with Charlie Byrd, Pt.2 - 1:15
13. Corcovado (Jobim) - 5:51
14. Interview with Charlie Byrd, Pt.3 - 0:35
15. Cottontail (Ellington) - 5:52
16. So Danco Samba (Jobim) - 6:04
17. Things Ain't Like They Used to Be (Ellington-Person) - 6:28
18. Bernie's Tune (Miller-Stoller-Leiber) - 5:27
Состав:
Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow - guitar
Recorded live at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, Pittsburgh, PA on July 7, 1997.

Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel - The Concord Jazz Heritage Series
Год издания диска: 1998
Продолжительность: 61:42
Треклист:
01. Lover (Rodgers-Hart) - 5:29
02. Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Ellington-Persons) - 4:52
03. On Green Dolphin Street (Kaper-Washington) - 3:08
04. Bernie's Tune (Miller-Stoller-Leiber) - 4:25
05. Gravy Waltz (Brown-Allen) - 3:33
06. Air Mail Special (Mundy-Goodman-Christian) - 4:50
07. It Might as Well Be Spring (Rodgers-Hammerstein) - 5:52
08. When Lights Are Low (Carter-Williams) - 4:14
09. Down Home Blues (Jackson) - 4:05
10. Little Rock Getaway (Sullivan) - 3:31
11. Amparo (Jobim) - 4:10
12. Where or When (Rodgers-Hart) - 4:25
13. Medley: Nuages (Reinhardt)/Goin' Out of My Head (Weinstein-Randazzo)/Flying Home (Goodman-Hampton-Robin) - 9:08
Состав:
Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel - guitar
with
Larry Coryell - guitar
John Goldsby - bass
Tim Horner - drums
Mundell Lowe - guitar
and many others...
Компиляция записей 1975-1996 гг.