{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Poll Winners | type = studio | artist = [[Barney Kessel]] with [[Shelly Manne]] and [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] | cover = The Poll Winners.jpg | alt = | released = 1957 | recorded = March 18 & 19, 1957 | venue = | studio = Contemporary Records Studio, Los Angeles, California | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = 40:35 | label = [[Contemporary Records|Contemporary]] | producer = [[Lester Koenig]] | chronology = [[Barney Kessel]] | prev_title = [[Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By]] | prev_year = 1956 | next_title = [[Let's Cook!]] | next_year = 1957 }}
'''''The Poll Winners''''' is an album by jazz guitarist [[Barney Kessel]] with drummer [[Shelly Manne]] and bassist [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] that was recorded in 1957 and released by [[Contemporary Records]].<ref name="Contemporary Records discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/contemporary-records/catalog-3500-7500-series/#c-3535 Contemporary Records discography] accessed May 21, 2015</ref> The album was the first of five to be released by the group.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''[[Down Beat]]'' | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>[[Down Beat]]: January 9, 1958 Vol. 25, No. 1</ref> | rev2 = ''[[Allmusic]]'' | rev2Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev3 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]'' |rev3score = {{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 Ronnie D. Lankford Jr. states: "The choice of material, the interplay between the three players, and the lead work all meld together beautifully on ''The Poll Winners'', making it a classic guitar album in a small-group setting".<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Ronnie D. |last=Lankford Jr. |class=album |id=mw0000649597 |title=''The Poll Winners'' – Review |accessdate=May 21, 2015}}</ref>
==Track listing== # "[[Jordu]]" ([[Duke Jordan]]) - 3:27 # "[[Satin Doll]]" ([[Duke Ellington]], [[Billy Strayhorn]], [[Johnny Mercer]]) - 6:30 # "[[It Could Happen to You (song)|It Could Happen to You]]" ([[Jimmy Van Heusen]], [[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]]) - 4:23 # "[[Mean to Me (1929 song)|Mean to Me]]" ([[Fred E. Ahlert]], [[Roy Turk]]) - 6:28 # "[[Don't Worry 'bout Me]]" ([[Rube Bloom]], [[Ted Koehler]]) - 4:34 # "[[On Green Dolphin Street (song)|On Green Dolphin Street]]" ([[Bronisław Kaper]], [[Ned Washington]]) - 4:02 # "[[You Go to My Head]]" ([[J. Fred Coots]], [[Haven Gillespie]]) - 4:22 # "Minor Mood" (Barney Kessel) - 3:18 # "[[Nagasaki (song)|Nagasaki]]" ([[Harry Warren]], [[Mort Dixon]]) - 3:05
==Personnel== *[[Barney Kessel]] - [[guitar]] *[[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] - [[double bass|bass]] *[[Shelly Manne]] - [[drum kit|drums]]
==References== {{reflist}} {{Barney Kessel}}
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