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The Poll Winners

Recorded	Mar 18-19, 1957
Label	Contemporary Records
Released	1957
Personnel	3 credited players
Discogs	master 211089

The record

Three poll-topping players work as a unit here, not a summit meeting, favoring taste over flash across a set of standards. Few Contemporary dates sound this unhurried.

Session personnel

Ray Brown — bass
Shelly Manne — drums
Barney Kessel — guitar

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

We hold no original-era Contemporary LP for this title. The earliest pressing on file is Original Jazz Classics OJC-156, a 1984 US stereo reissue, and France issued the same record on Contemporary as 68.623 in 1985. Contemporary went back to it for a 2014 European 180 gram OJC-156 and a 2015 US stereo numbered S7535. Any of those is a reasonable buy; the original simply is not in our data.

1984	Original Jazz Classics · OJC-156 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo earliest on file
1985	Contemporary Records · 68.623 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue OJC
1985	Contemporary Records · 68.623 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Test Pressing OJC
2015	Contemporary Records · S7535 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo OJC
1974	Contemporary Records — STEREO
2002	Original Jazz Classics · OJC20 156-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Digipak
2014	Contemporary Records · OJC-156 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180 grams
2022	Craft Recordings — File, FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 24-Bit/96 kHz
—	Contemporary Records · CEP 4104 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP, Mono
—	London Records · LY-1011 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
—	Contemporary Records · C-7535 — Cassette, Album, Remastered, CrO2