Barney Kessel To Swing or Not to Swing Contemporary C3511
Barney Kessel - guitar
Harry Edison - trumpet (tracks 2, 3 & 6-10)
Georgie Auld (tracks 2, 6, 7 & 12) - tenor saxophone
Bill Perkins (tracks 3, 5 & 9) - tenor saxophone
Jimmy Rowles - piano
Al Hendrickson - guitar
Red Mitchell - bass
Irv Cottler (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6-8, 10 & 11) - drums
Shelly Manne (tracks 3, 5 & 9) - drums

Recorded at Contemporary's studio in Los Angeles on March 28, 1955 (tracks 3, 5 & 9)
and July 26, 1955  (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6-8, 10 & 11).

1 Begin the Blues - 4:29
2 Louisiana - 3:57
3 Happy Feeling - 3:58
4 Embraceable You - 3:24
5 Wail Street - 4:25
6 Back Home Again in Indiana - 3:13
7 Moten Swing - 3:58
8 Midnight Sun - 3:10
9 Contemporary Blues - 4:09
10 Don't Blame Me - 2:58
11 Twelfth Street Rag - 2:55