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Wes Montgomery: Echoes of Indiana

Read "Echoes of Indiana" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 9, 2012

La ricerca di registrazioni inedite, perdute, connesse a fasi iniziali della carriera di un artista o a un passaggio fondamentale della storia del jazz, è una costante da sempre del collezionismo specializzato. Ha portato numerose gioie: si pensi in anni recenti alla scoperta di registrazioni live del quintetto di Parker e Gillespie Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 / The Quintet of the Year) o analoghi documenti del quartetto di Monk e Coltrane (Thelonious Monk Quartet with John ...

Album Review

Wes Montgomery: Echoes of Indiana Avenue

Read "Echoes of Indiana Avenue" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 11, 2012

In the mid-twentieth century, Indianapolis was an incubator for jazz talent. Trombonist J.J. Johnson, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and guitarist Wes Montgomery all began their individual ascents to stardom from the heart of Hoosier country. While the first two artists had long careers, Montgomery wasn't so lucky. This self-taught genius, who burst onto the national scene in 1958, was felled by a fatal heart only a decade later.In ten short years, Montgomery delivered a string of classic recordings that ...

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Album Review

Wes Montgomery: Echoes of Indiana Avenue

Read "Echoes of Indiana Avenue" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 21, 2012

Not since the discovery of the Voice of America tapes of the 1957 Carnegie Hall concert by Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane has there been an event as exciting as the surfacing of this rare first recording by guitar-maestro Wes Montgomery. The Echoes of Indiana Avenue masters, procured by Montgomery fan Jim Greeninger, were offered to producer Michael Cuscuna who, in turn, brought in Zev Feldman of Resonance Records to unravel the mystery of the lost Montgomery tapes. It required ...

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Multiple Reviews

Wes Montgomery, Soulive and the Beatles: Bending Time

by Chris May
October 11, 2010

Two albums by guitar/organ trios would seem, on the face of it, to be prosaic enough propositions. And musically, guitarist Wes Montgomery's Boss Guitar, newly remastered, and Soulive's Rubber Soulive, recorded in 2010, are indeed straightforward affairs. But consider them together, and a cluster of time warps emerge, as 47 years of age difference shrink and futurism, modernism, revivalism and anachronism bleed into each other. Wes Montgomery Boss Guitar Riverside / OJC Remasters 2010 (1963) ...

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Album Review

Wes Montgomery: The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

Read "The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
October 25, 2008

Ask a dozen jazz guitar fans for their all-time top guitar albums and The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery is likely to be high on every list. If it isn't, chances are Montgomery's live set Full House (Riverside, 1962), recorded two years later, will be. With these discs, Indianapolis-born Montgomery (1923-68) gave the guitar its biggest quantum leaps forward, both stylistically and in terms of listener acceptance, since Charlie Christian in the late 1930s/early 1940s and Johnny Smith in ...

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Film Review

Wes Montgomery: Live in '65

by Jim Santella
October 26, 2007

Wes Montgomery Live in '65 Jazz Icons2007 If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many pages equate to the feeling that you get from a video? As the saying goes, “It's the next best thing to being there.These three sessions, produced for Reelin' In The Years Productions in Europe, feature guitarist Wes Montgomery with three different piano trios. Filmed in black and white for television, the images are ...

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Album Review

Wes Montgomery: Boss Guitar

Read "Boss Guitar" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 15, 2004

Wes Montgomery recorded Boss Guitar at age 38, near the end of his acclaimed Riverside years and just five years before his death. While the records that followed would give him some radio hits (and lose him some fans), the 1963 session was a time when he really could make the bold claim of the album’s title. The previous year, Montgomery had placed fourth in the then influential Playboy Jazz Poll among reader ballots, and had been named “All-Stars’ All-Star ...