The Wes Montgomery Trio

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The Wes Montgomery Trio
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Studio album by
Wes Montgomery
ReleasedMarch 1960 [1]
RecordedOctober 5–6, 1959
StudioReeves Sound Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length48:33
Label Riverside
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Wes Montgomery chronology
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The Wes Montgomery Trio (a.k.a. A Dynamic New Sound) is an album by the American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1960. The track "Missile Blues" is named after the club in Indianapolis where Montgomery played before moving to New York City to record for Riverside. At this club, he met Riverside's record producer Orrin Keepnews. The album was reissued on the Original Jazz Classics label. [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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In his AllMusic review, music critic Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. wrote: "The only drawback is that the accompaniment, which though solid, doesn't seem to perfectly match his guitar style... Montgomery's performance... was a revolution in technique and execution. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a 36-year-old guitarist re-imagines the jazz guitar solo." [3]

Track listing

  1. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 4:58
  2. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 3:20
  3. "The End of a Love Affair" (Edward Redding) – 3:18
  4. "Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) – 4:40
  5. "Ecaroh" (Horace Silver) – 3:00
  6. "Satin Doll" [Alternate take] (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) – 4:08
  7. "Satin Doll" (Ellington, Mercer, Strayhorn) – 3:58
  8. "Missile Blues" [Alternate take] (Wes Montgomery) – 4:37
  9. "Missile Blues" (Montgomery) – 6:04
  10. "Too Late Now" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 4:55
  11. "Jingles" (Montgomery) – 5:31

Tracks 6 & 8 do not appear on the original album.

Personnel

Production notes:

Session information

Cuts 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 recorded at Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, October 5, 1959
Cuts 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 recorded at Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, October 6, 1959

Releases

Riverside CRLP 1156 (original album), Riverside RLP 12-310, Riverside OJCCD-034-2

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References

  1. ↑ "Billboard". April 4, 1960.
  2. ↑ Woodard, Josef (1 July 2005). "Wes Montgomery: The Softer Side of Genius". JazzTimes. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  3. 1 2 Lankford, Jr., Ronnie D. "The Wes Montgomery Trio > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved July 31, 2011.
  4. ↑ Wilson, John S. (21 January 1960). "Wes Montgomery: The Wes Montgomery Trio". DownBeat . Vol. 27, no. 2. p. 32.
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1026. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 485.
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