Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes

Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes
Studio album by Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Smith
Released	1968
Recorded	September 21 & 28, 1966
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz
Length	32:56
Label	Verve
Producer	Creed Taylor
Wes Montgomery chronology
Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo (1966) Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes (1968) Tequila (1966)
Jimmy Smith chronology
Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo (1966) Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes (1966) Respect (1967)

Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes is an album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery and organist Jimmy Smith. It was recorded in 1966 with Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo but was not released until 1968.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[2]

Richard S. Ginell reviewed the reissue for AllMusic, writing that the album:

"picks up where Dynamic Duo left off, digging a little further into the one-time-only Wes Montgomery/Jimmy Smith sessions and coming up with more fine music — mellower in general than Dynamic Duo but first-class nonetheless. Unlike most of the studio sessions from this time, Montgomery gets plenty of room for his single-string work as well as his famous octaves, and both techniques find him in full, mature bloom, needing fewer notes in which to say more (Smith, of course, is precisely the opposite)." ^[1]

Track listing

1. "King of the Road" (Roger Miller) – 4:13
2. "Maybe September" (Percy Faith, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) – 6:24
3. "O.G.D. (aka Road Song)" (Wes Montgomery) – 6:08
4. "Call Me" (Tony Hatch) – 3:13
5. "Milestones" (Miles Davis) – 4:12
6. "Mellow Mood" (Jimmy Smith) – 8:44
7. "'Round Midnight" - (bonus track) (Cootie Williams, Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen) – 7:18

Personnel

Musicians

• Jimmy Smith – Hammond organ
• Wes Montgomery – guitar
• Grady Tate – drums
• Ray Barretto – percussion

Additional musicians on "Milestones" and "'Round Midnight"

• Bob Ashton, Danny Bank, Jerry Dodgion, Jerome Richardson, Phil Woods – woodwinds
• Clark Terry, Ernie Royal, Jimmy Maxwell, Joe Newman – trumpet
• Jimmy Cleveland, Melba Liston, Quentin Jackson – trombone
• Tony Studd – bass trombone
• Richard Davis – bass
• Oliver Nelson – arranger, conductor

Production

• Creed Taylor – producer
• Val Valentin – director of engineering
• Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
• Dick Smith – art direction
• Chuck Stewart – photography
• Michael Zwerin – liner notes
• Gene Santoro – reissue liner notes

References

1. Ginell, Richard S. "Further Adventures of Jimmy & Wes > Reissue review". AllMusic . Retrieved December 17, 2010.
2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1313. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.