Results for "Wes Montgomery"

"Keepnews Collection" is Kaput

January 28, 2009

Concord engineer Joe Tarantino reportedly says that the label's “Keepnews Collection" reissue series is being cancelled, due to poor sales. The series featured new editions of classic jazz albums such as Sonny Rollins' Freedom Suite, Wes Montgomery's Incredible Jazz Guitar, and Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners, all remastered by Tarantino, with updated liner notes by longtime, legendary ...

The Story of Jazz Guitar

by AAJ Staff
January 27, 2009

While in its early days, jazz guitar was considered a rhythm instrument alongside the banjo of Dixieland. In 1940, Charlie Christian and his Gibson ES-150 changed that and elevated guitar to lead instrument status alongside the saxophone and trumpet--instruments that could acoustically cut through the sound of a piano-bass-drums rhythm section. Here, we encapsulate some of ...

The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

By Wes Montgomery

Label: Riverside
Released: 2008
Track listing: Airegin; D-Natural Blues; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Four on Six; West Coast Blues; In Your Own Sweet Way; Mr. Walker; Gone With The Wind.

Wes Montgomery: The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

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 ...

New Wes Montgomery Video Program at justcoolin.com

September 10, 2008

Jazz Icons: Wes Montgomery Live In '65

By Wes Montgomery

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2007

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 ...

Orrin Keepnews' Collection

by Marc Medwin
October 7, 2007

"Listen," Orrin Keepnews' no-nonsense delivery tempered by a smile. “I'm 84 years old. I'll take my legacies where I can get them," referring to the Keepnews Collection, a series launched this year by Concord Records. An astonishing study in longevity and ingenuity, the multiple facets and accomplishments of Keepnews' career as label maverick, writer ...

Take Five With JC Stylles

by AAJ Staff
April 18, 2007

Meet Jason Campbell:JC Stylles ("Jason Campbell"), guitarist, specializes in working within the organ combo format. Originally from Australia, he lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and works the Harlem organ rooms, keeping alive the tradition of the guitar's importance in the role popularized by Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, George Benson ...

A Day In The Life / Down Here On The Ground

By Wes Montgomery

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2006