Let's Cook
by Barney Kessel

Let's Cook by Barney Kessel
Year: 1957
Overall rank: 20,370th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 9 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1957 (98th)
Award Top albums of the 1950s (599th)
Award Best albums of all time (20,370th)

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Let's Cook is ranked as the best album by Barney Kessel.

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Overall rank: 20,370th | 1950s rank: 599th | 1957 rank: 98th

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From 11/28/2016 19:20 | #179281
Just as Kessel did indeed swing on "To Swing or Not to Swing," here on "Let's Cook," he absolutely cooks. Great jazz guitar here!
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Best Albums of 1957
1. Here's Little Richard by Little Richard
2. Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk
3. The "Chirping" Crickets by The Crickets
4. Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins
5. Birth Of The Cool by Miles Davis
6. 'Round About Midnight by Miles Davis
7. With His Hot And Blue Guitar by Johnny Cash
8. After School Session by Chuck Berry
9. Ray Charles by Ray Charles
10. Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet by Miles Davis Quintet
11. Monk's Music by Thelonious Monk Septet
12. Miles Ahead by Miles Davis + 19
13. The Clown by Charles Mingus
14. Dance Album by Carl Perkins
15. After Midnight by Nat King Cole
16. Singin' The Blues by B.B. King
17. Way Out West by Sonny Rollins
18. Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps by Gene Vincent
19. Singin' To My Baby by Eddie Cochran With The Johnny Mann Orchestra And Chorus
20. Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald
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