Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery

Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery - Smokin' At The Half Note

by C. Michael Bailey
August 9, 2005

Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery Smokin' At The Half Note Verve 829578 1965 The late jazz guitarist Emily Remler once said that lurking inside her middle-class Jewish body was a black man with a fat right thumb. That black man with a fat thumb was Wes Montgomery. Born John Leslie Montgomery in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 6, 1925, Montgomery took the better part of his short life to become an overnight ...