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YouTubers Dig Wes Montgomery

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In 2019, I posted on YouTube clips of students working out on transcriptions by guitarist Barry Galbraith. In 2018, I did the same with piano students playing Red Garland. Yesterday, I stumbled onto videos of guitar students playing Wes Montgomery. Here are eight videos plus a cover by a professional trio:

Here's Audrey playing Four on Six...



Here's Dearly Beloved...



Here's Mr. Walker...



Here's Alex Baird signing a vocalese on Montgomery's recording of The Days of Wine and Roses...



Here's Gentle Rain...



Here's Cecil Alexander playing West Coast Blues...



Here's Sun Down (played in a bathrobe)...



And here's the bass line to So Do It!...



Bonus: Here's Gerard Cubillon on guitar, Patrick Villanueva on organ and Stepahne Germaud on drums playing So Do It!...

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This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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