THE INCREDIBLE JAZZ GUITAR OF WES MONTGOMERY 1960 Orig MONO LP              

List Title: THE INCREDIBLE JAZZ GUITAR OF WES MONTGOMERY 1960 Orig MONO LP

 

Artist: WES MONTGOMERY

Title: "THE INCREDIBLE JAZZ GUITAR OF WES MONTGOMERY”

 

Label: RIVERSIDE RECORDS produced in England by INTERDISC

“Chappell & Co. London” sticker

Catalogue No: RLP 12-320

 

 

Library ID: 0101 Matrix:
Year: 1960

Personnel:

Wes Montgomery - guitar
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Percy Heath - bass
Albert Heath - drums

 

 

 

This is an original MONO pressing , NOT a remaster or reissue.

 

Cover: EX Clean, shiny and stiff cover. No seam splits. No visible ring wear. Some minor damage on top left corner and bottom right. See photos.

 

Disc: EX+

Gorgeous, shiny black record with only a few very minor scuffs, although there are no visible scratches or other flaws, a few small pops were heard on side 1 during the quieter passages.

 

“EIT” in dead wax.

Description:

The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

 

If more listeners thought Louis Armstrong was a singer than one of the greatest trumpet players of all time when he died in 1971, a similar proportion of Wes Montgomery's admirers probably thought that he was a smooth-jazz artist than a cutting-edge hard-bop guitar improvisor when Montgomery died three years previously.

Montgomery, an electric guitarist with a uniquely soft and luxurious sound but a melodic imagination of exuberant audacity, had been making a series of big-selling soul and pop-flavoured lounge-jazz discs for Verve and A&M from the mid-1960s, and very little of what had made his music so startling in earlier years survived the transition. The smooth chordwork and softly humming octave playing from hit records such as California Dreamin' became his trademark.

But this remarkable set, recorded not long after Montgomery first broke on to the big-time jazz scene after years in the clubs of his native Indianapolis, catches precisely the quality that made Cannonball Adderley burst into the Riverside offices after first hearing Montgomery and insist they sign him up. It is a direct and unpretentious bop disc, with a terrific rhythm section including Tommy Flanagan on piano.

On such up-tempo hellraisers as Sonny Rollins's Airegin, Montgomery's astonishing fertility of ideas, his intuitiveness, and his immense relaxation even at punishing speeds shine through the music. Montgomery, who was playing professionally only six months after he picked up the guitar in the early 1940s and was on the road with Lionel Hampton at 25, reflected that he was at his peak in 1952, years before the jazz world outside Indianapolis knew anything about him. By then he had mastered a technique of his own making, often soloing in octaves like Django Reinhardt as well as playing Charlie Christian-like bebop lines, and using his thumb instead of a pick (to avoid complaints from his neighbours), which gave his sound a unique mellowness.

This disc, now remastered on Ace, shows that Montgomery's improvised melodies - notably on tracks such as Airegin, West Coast Blues and Mister Walker - were as fresh and free of repetition as ever, but his rhythmic drive and attack are even more remarkable. He is the godfather of so much contemporary jazz guitar.

 

This album still has its original inner sleeve.

Genre:Jazz
Format:LP – MONO
Origin:UK

 

Track Listing:
Side A

01 - Airegin
02 - D-Natural Blues
03 - Polka Dots And Moonbeams
04 - Four On Six

Side B

05 - West Coast Blues
06 - In Your Own Sweet Way
07 - Mr. Walker (Renie)
08 - Gone With The Wind

This is from a large jazz collection. Many have been played only a few times and look brand new unless otherwise stated. Kept in a clean, smoke and pet free home.

Please view my other listings as I will have many more cool jazz LP's up for sale in the coming months. The whole collection will eventually be auctioned.  

Thanks.

Guaranteed to be original and authentic.  I do not sell bootlegs or modern reissues.

 

Your LP will be shipped in the highest quality, brand new, sturdy PREMIUM 625 MICRON record mailers.
as used by nearly every record distributor worldwide with a cardboard stiffener both above and below the record. Records are removed from the jacket to prevent seam from splitting.

 

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