Released 1966 Artist Wes Montgomery Producer Creed Taylor Genre Jazz | Length 46:57 Release date 1966 Label Verve Records | |
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Recorded March 17 – 21, 1966 at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Tequila
(1966) A Day in the Life
(1967) Similar Wes Montgomery albums, Jazz albums | ||
Tequila is the seventeenth jazz album recorded by guitarist Wes Montgomery and released in 1966.
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History
Tequila is a mixture of tracks using just a jazz quartet with Ron Carter, Grady Tate and Ray Barretto and the rest with a string section arranged by Claus Ogerman. It is mainly a Latin-flavored album, the first Montgomery recorded without a keyboardist.
It was reissued on CD in 1999 and 2008 with alternate takes that are listed below.
Reception
In his Allmusic review, music critic Scott Yanow singled out individual tracks as those giving Montgomery the opportunity to jam and those backed with string arrangements. The few tracks he praises he claims "uplift this album quite a bit beyond the guitarist's later A&M recordings."
Jazz writer Josef Woodard called the album "an airy, melodious record, with the standout track being the gently brooding Montgomery original "Bumpin' on Sunset," which features him playing double octaves-the same note played in three octaves."
Track listing
- "Tequila" (Chuck Rio)
- "Little Child (Daddy Dear)" (Wayne Shanklin)
- "What the World Needs Now Is Love" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
- "The Big Hurt" (Wayne Shanklin)
- "Bumpin' on Sunset" (Wes Montgomery)
- "Insensatez (How Insensitive)" (Vinicius De Moraes, Norman Gimbel, Antônio Carlos Jobim)
- "The Thumb" (Wes Montgomery)
- "Midnight Mood" (Ben Raleigh, Joe Zawinul)
- "Wives and Lovers" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
- "Tequila (alternate take)"
- "The Big Hurt (alternate take)"
- "Bumpin' on Sunset (alternate take)"
Personnel
Production notes:
Songs
1Tequila3:18
2Little Child (Daddy Dear)2:26
3What the World Needs Now Is Love4:52