Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes

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Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes
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Studio album by
Released1968
RecordedSeptember 21 & 28, 1966
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length32:56
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.

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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

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

Production

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References

  1. 1 2 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.