{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Poll Winners Three! | type = Album | artist = [[Barney Kessel]], [[Shelly Manne]] & [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] | cover = Poll Winners Three!.jpg | alt = | released = 1960 | recorded = November 2, 1959 | studio = Contemporary Records Studio, Los Angeles, California | venue = | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = 38:33 | label = [[Contemporary Records|Contemporary]]<small> C3576/S7576</small> | producer = [[Lester Koenig]] | chronology = [[Barney Kessel]] | prev_title = [[Some Like It Hot (Barney Kessel album)|Some Like It Hot]] | prev_year = 1959 | next_title = [[Barney Kessel's Swingin' Party]] | next_year = 1960 }}
'''''Poll Winners Three!''''' is an album by guitarist [[Barney Kessel]] with drummer [[Shelly Manne]] and bassist [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]], recorded in 1959 and released on the [[Contemporary Records|Contemporary]] label.<ref name="Contemporary Records discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/contemporary-records/catalog-3500-7500-series/#m-3576 Contemporary Records discography] accessed May 21, 2015</ref> The album was the third of five to be released by the group.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''[[Allmusic]]'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=821}}</ref> }} The [[Allmusic]] review by [[Scott Yanow]] called it a "fairly typical but swinging straightahead set".<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000279839 |title=''The Poll Winners Ride Again!'' – Review |accessdate=May 21, 2015}}</ref>
==Track listing== # "[[Soft Winds]]" ([[Benny Goodman]]) - 4:14 # "Crisis" (Barney Kessel) - 3:49 # "The Little Rhumba" (Shelly Manne) - 3:41 # "[[Easy Living (song)|Easy Living]]" ([[Ralph Rainger]], [[Leo Robin]]) - 3:20 # "[[It's All Right with Me]]" ([[Cole Porter]]) - 3:41 # "[[Mack the Knife]]" ([[Kurt Weill]], [[Bertolt Brecht]]) - 3:53 # "Rain Check" ([[Billy Strayhorn]]) - 3:07 # "Minor Mystery" (Ray Brown) - 5:50 # "I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over" ([[Herb Magidson]], [[Allie Wrubel]]) - 4:34 # "[[I Hear Music]]" ([[Burton Lane]], [[Frank Loesser]]) - 2:53
==Personnel== *[[Barney Kessel]] - [[guitar]] *[[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] - [[double bass|bass]] *[[Shelly Manne]] - [[drum kit|drums]]
==References== {{reflist}} {{Barney Kessel}} {{Authority control}}
[[Category:Contemporary Records albums]] [[Category:Barney Kessel albums]] [[Category:1960 albums]]