Wes Montgomery-The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960)


 

Artist: Wes Montgomery

Title: The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

Label: Original Jazz Classics/Riverside Records

Format: CD

Cat #: OJC-CD-036-2, RLP-9320

Year of Release: 1960

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1987 reissue BMG club remastered edition

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 3/2/22

Sell Price: $2.99

Discogs Last Sold: 11/29/21 $2.00

Low: $1.99

Median: $2.87

Average: $3.07

High: $7.04

Current low price: $3.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 8

Have/Want: 81/78

Where Sold: Loveland, CO

Time it took to sell: 11 years

Where and When Bought: BMG music club late 90's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

Sort of a baseline guitarist in my father's vocabulary which was why I added this classic jazz CD to my collection at some point.  Mongomery was probably referred to in passing and I realized how unfamiliar with his music, so this was my introduction his artistry.

From a "modern" perspective, you can't really envision a world with George Benson's style without Wes Montgomery before him.  I guess that is why history is history.  Wes passed in 1968 of a heart attack at the age of 45.  His whole history is before I was even born.   

As far as the last half century is concerned, I can't fathom Montgomery's "D-Natural Blues" not having some concious derivation of Chet Atkins' work on "Heartbreak Hotel" Elvis did a few years before this release.  Influence tends to go round and round even if the modern surveillance era wants to litigate all ideas to the nth degree for publishers to be made whole.  The train cannot be stopped.  Ask Bob Dylan when he underlines a sentence in a book for future lyric usage, he'll tell ya "Tiny Montgomery" said hello.  Probably unrelated.

It is pointless for me to "critique" Jazz, I can only describe what I think is important to the layperson.  The more learned will fill in the gaping knowledge holes, and the uninitiated may think there is too much information.  Music critics used to sniff at this sort of analysis as sophomoric, but The Reverse Collector (TM)  makes no claim to know it all.

Take Five was a hand-me-down burned in my childhood brain.  I could hear echoes of him in this and sure enough Brubeck's "In Your Own Sweet Way" from the 1956 Brubeck Plays Brubeck is one of the covers on here.   The uber-Sinatra-standard "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke is also here.  The 1937 hit "Gone With The Wind" originally recorded by Horace Heidt and his Brigadiers closes the album.  A snappy Sonny Rollins "Airegin" from 1954's Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins 10"  kicks off the record.  The rest are Montgomery originals.  

Echoes of many eras long gone by.





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