Apparently, the median age of a jazz listener is in his or her mid to late 40s. So, perhaps, the representative listener was born in the mid-1970s. Sonny Rollins first recorded in 1949. The recordings ...

Barney Kessel was born at Muskogee, Oklahoma, on October 17 1923. He took up the guitar at the age of 12, teaching himself to play by copying guitarists he heard on the radio and records. He made ...

Barney Kessel, a pioneer of bebop guitar and a leading figure in the West Coast jazz of the 1950s and ’60s, died May 6 of brain cancer. He was 80. As front man and a featured artist, he recorded more ...

SAN DIEGO -- Muskogee native Barney Kessel, a high-profile jazz guitarist who performed with Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum and other music greats, died of brain cancer Thursday in San ...

"Chuck Redd Remembers Barney Kessel: Happy All the Time" Arbors GENE BERTONCINI "Quiet Now" Ambient FILE VIBRAPHONIST Chuck Redd's new release under "Labor of Love." Better yet, just slide it into ...

The guitarist Barney Kessel, who died of brain cancer May 6 at age 80, was playing a ballad at the Washington club Charlie's in 1982 when a dish dropped and several cubes of ice fell to the floor.