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The Wes Montgomery Trio

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Released
  
1959

Artist
  
Wes Montgomery

Producer
  
Orrin Keepnews

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
48:33

Release date
  
1959

Label
  
Riverside Records

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Recorded
  
October 5–6, 1959 at Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

The Wes Montgomery Trio (1959)
  
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Similar
  
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The Wes Montgomery Trio (or A Dynamic New Sound: Guitar Organ Drums) is the third album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1959. It has been reissued by Original Jazz Classics.

Contents

The track "Missile Blues" is named after the club Montgomery regularly played at in Indianapolis before his move to New York to record for Riverside. It was at this club that he first met producer Orrin Keepnews.

Reception

In his Allmusic review, music critic Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. wrote of the album "The only drawback is that the accompaniment, which though solid, doesn't seem to perfectly match his guitar style... Montgomery's performance... was a revolution in technique and execution. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a 36-year-old guitarist re-imagines the jazz guitar solo."

Track listing

  1. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 4:58
  2. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 3:20
  3. "The End of a Love Affair" (Edward Redding) – 3:18
  4. "Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) – 4:40
  5. "Ecaroh" (Horace Silver) – 3:00
  6. "Satin Doll" [Alternate take] (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) – 4:08
  7. "Satin Doll" (Ellington, Mercer, Strayhorn) – 3:58
  8. "Missile Blues" [Alternate take] (Wes Montgomery) – 4:37
  9. "Missile Blues" (Montgomery) – 6:04
  10. "Too Late Now" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 4:55
  11. "Jingles" (Montgomery) – 5:31

Tracks 6 & 8 do not appear on the original album.

Personnel

  • Wes Montgomery – guitar
  • Melvin Rhyne – organ
  • Paul Parker – drums

    • Production notes:

  • Orrin Keepnews – producer
  • Jack Higgins – engineer

    • Session information

    Cuts 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 recorded at Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, October 5, 1959
    Cuts 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 recorded at Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, October 6, 1959

    Releases

    Riverside CRLP 1156 (original album), Riverside RLP 12-310, Riverside OJCCD-034-2

    Songs

    'Round Midnight4:58
    Yesterdays3:20
    The End of a Love Affair3:19

    References

    The Wes Montgomery Trio Wikipedia
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