A Happy Little Song (Barney Kessel)

[alfstone]

This one is dedicated to sessantaquattrochitarre!  

The story behind this track: it was a cold night at the local jazz club, here in Palermo, 1978-79 (I don't remember exactly...): the great Barney Kessel on stage!

I brought with me a small portable cassette recorder, so I recorded the whole show. Great show indeed, but at a certain point Mr.Kessel said: "And now, a happy little song..." and he played a couple of minutes of this wonderful...happy little song, that will always remain in my memories. Several years after, when I bought my BR-600, I recorded this one: my little hommage to one of the best guitar players I've ever listened to.

Guitar: my old and BIG Washburn J6
Drums backing track: Band-in-a-box MIDI track, rendered with Cakewalk Studio Instruments drum-kit

[Oldrottenhead]

[OsCKilO]

Superb Playing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rata-tat-tat]

Hey this is great. Great playing. Just curious. Did you lay a bass track down with this one. I noticed on the intro... it sounded like a bass or maybe you were just hitting the low strings on your guitar. Either way this is way bad ass.

[launched]

Man, that's some killer pickin'!! I'll never be this good, so obviously I don't like you very much!  

But seriously, this is really good!

Peace,

Mark

[64Guitars]

This one is dedicated to sessantaquattrochitarre!  

Thanks, Alfredo! 

This MP3 has a much better sample rate and bitrate than the one I downloaded from the Yahoo! BossBR group two years ago (22050 Hz / 80 kbps).

Cool song and a wonderful performance. It's nice to hear something a bit different here.

[Satchwood]

Nice jazz guitar playing ~ skillfully performed!!  Very soothing and relaxing! 

[alfstone]

Dear friends,

thanks everybody, you are so much kind...I'm really glad you enjoyed the "happy little song"!

Dear Rat-tat-tat, yes, it's just me playing a little fingerstyle (...well, I'm not so good... ) with some walking bass on the 6th string...

If I only could, I would play much more fingerstyle, but there is a problem with my profession of doctor: to play a good fingerstyle, you must have long nails in the first three or four fingers of the right hand (unless you are Mark Knopfler...), and that is in fact impossible for a doctor, having to do daily with abdominal palpation...

[Facemask93]

Hey Alf , what a happy little song indeedy , nice playing my friend , with expression and feeling , very nice

Rob

[64Guitars]

On This Day bump for a happy little song.