Recording Review

Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis—Great Guitars Live. ("At the Winery" and "At Charlie's Georgetown": Two Classic Albums in One Unique Package.) B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson. Broadway. Jimmie Mundy, Benny Goodman, and Charlie Christian. Air Mail Special. John Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, and Frank Eyton. Body and Soul. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. You Took Advantage of Me. Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicus De Moraes. So Danço Samba. Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler, and Ted Snyder. Sheik of Araby. Nat King Cole and Irving Mills. Straighten Up and Fly Right. Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jule Styne. Just in Time. Gus Kahn and Chester Cohn. The Talk of the Town. Charlie Byrd, guitar; Barney Kessel, guitar; Herb Ellis, guitar; Joe Byrd, bass; Jimmie Smith, drums. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Where or When. Hoagy Carmichael. New Orleans. Charlie Byrd, arr. When the Saints Go Marching In. Irving Berlin. Change Partners. Al Cohn. Pensive. Sy Oliver. Opus One. Dedette Lee Hill and Willard Robinson. Old Folks. Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Get Happy. Al Cohn. Danielle. R. M. Jones. Trouble in Mind. Charlie Byrd, guitar; Barney Kessel, guitar; Herb Ellis, guitar; Joe Byrd, bass; Chuck Redd, drums. Liner notes by Vern Hansen and Felix Grant. 2001. Concord Jazz CCD2-4958-2. 

For lovers of baseball, nothing is better than to have an opportunity to witness a rare triple play unfold right in front of your eyes. For jazz guitar lovers, they would much prefer to hear a rare triple play as a result of a swinging tune than to see one as a result of a swinging bat. Great Guitars Live provides just that—a well-recorded double CD of nearly twenty tunes featuring the trio of Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, and Herb Ellis. Both sets are captured live at two separate venues, the first at the Paul Masson Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California, in July 1980 and the second at Charlie's Georgetown in Washington, D.C., in August 1982.