The Poll Winners

[a=Barney Kessel] (guitar), [a=Ray Brown] (bass), and [a=Shelly Manne] (drums) won the reader polls in Down Beat, Playboy, and Metronome magazines first in 1956 and then again in 1957, which is precisely what brought the players together.

As a group, they released four studio albums between 1956 and 1960, with a reunion album in 1975.

The "Poll-Winners" in the Adderley recording are the 2 multiple "Poll-Winners" in the Down Beat Jazz Polls (Ray Brown and Wes Montgomery) and not a group.

They should not be filed in this profile.