Legendary Jazz Guitarist, Barney Kessel Needs Your Help

Legendary jazz guitarist, Barney Kessel needs your help. He was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in November 2001. He had surgery, Gamma knife radiation and therapy to rehabilitate him enough so he could come home in late January 2002. The radiation slowed the growth of the very aggressive non-operable tumor (anaplastic astrocytoma). Barney requires 24 hour home care and therapy. He is almost blind, but he is able to still talk a little on the phone and receives visitors and enjoys listening to music. Barney has no life insurance. He has not worked in over ten years due to a massive stroke. His Social Security covers his rent. His wife, Phyllis works full time and her entire salary goes towards Barney's care.

Please send all checks to:
MRS. PHYLLIS KESSEL
4445 North Ave.
San Diego, CA 92116-3940

Please note: ALL monies are going directly to the source who needs it (not like other charities), going directly to Barney and Phyllis, thank-you!

Barney Kessel is a legend in the history of jazz, one of the most original voices ever to play the guitar. During a 1991 engagement at New York's venerable Village Vanguard, the New York Post wrote, he's “one of the finest guitarists in jazz" and the New York Times referred to him as “a master of guitar".

Critic Leonard Feather called him “as lyrical a guitarist as we have in jazz...a rhythmic natural who can outswing any man in the house." Among Andre Previn