- The Savory Collection, Vol. 1 - Body and Soul: Coleman Hawkins & Friends · 2016
- The Capitol Vaults Collection · 2011
- Pioneers of the Jazz Guitar · 2005
- Pioneers of Jazz Guitar - 1927-1939 · 1998
- Pioneers of Jazz Guitar - 1927-1939 · 1998
- The Town Hall Concerts Nine and Ten · 1988
- Jazz It Up! 1920s & '30s (Vol. 4: Hot Guitar) · 2023
- Four Hands Are Better Than Two - Guitar Players (Authentic Recordings 1924 - 1938) · 2014
- Timeless Dance Music Vol 1 · 2010
- Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang Columbia and Okeh Sessions, Vol. 4 · 2006
- Presenting… The Great Guitarists · 2005
- Presenting… The Great Guitarists · 2005
- Presenting… The Great Guitarists · 2005
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About Carl Kress
One of the great guitarists of the 1930s, Carl Kress had a very sophisticated chordal style on acoustic guitar. He originally played banjo before gradually shifting to guitar. Kress played with Paul Whiteman in 1926 and then became a very busy studio musician, recording with all of the top white musicians (including Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols' Five Pennies, and two classic duets with Eddie Lang) in those segregated days. Kress often teamed up with fellow guitarist Dick McDonough in the 1930s, he co-owned the Onyx Club on 52nd Street for a time, and continued working in the studios into the 1960s, playing during his last years in a duo with George Barnes. Most of Carl Kress' solo and duet (with McDonough) recordings from the 1930s are long overdue to be reissued. ~ Scott Yanow
- HOMETOWN
- Newark, NJ, United States
- BORN
- October 20, 1907
- GENRE
- Jazz