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Wes Montgomery
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.1240
Wes Montgomery Album Rankings
1
An audiophile reissue of an Original Jazz Classics CD also currently available, this live set is notable for teaming guitarist Wes Montgomery andthe Wynton Kelly Trio(comprised of pianistKelly, bassis
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2
This is one of Wes Montgomery's greatest recordings, a classic that really alerted the world about the talents of the guitarist.
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3
Still Smokin' It's ironic, as surely many have noted before me, that Wes Montgomery's landmark "live" record Smokin' at the Half Note wasn't exactly what its title claimed it to be.
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4
Taking the listener on a smoother, rather than bumpier, ride down the moonlight highway of jazz is Wes Montgomery, a chief architect of the world's guitar virtuoso scene.
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5
Wes Montgomery's debut for Verve, although better from a jazz standpoint than his later A&M releases, is certainly in the same vein.
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6
By the time Wes Montgomery recorded this album (his debut for A&M), he was a major name in the pop world.
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10
A successful pop date. Outstanding guitar, but little else.
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16
Notable early effort features a great sampling of brother Buddy 's high-energy vibes, a 17-year-old Freddie Hubbard making his recording debut, and a title track that's required listening for anyone
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18
Under the direction of producer Creed Taylor, these pedestrian, play- by-numbers efforts were a commercial success but mostly devoid of innovation.
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19
A terrific collection of music featuring some of Wes's best original material ("Far Wes," "Leila," "Wes' Tune") and brothers Buddy and Monk as session players; reissue features four added tracks reco
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20
In 1965, Wes Montgomery was growing increasingly commercial and was making his presence felt in the pop market more and more.
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26
"Incredible" doesn't adequately describe this Riverside release, and entirely new superlatives may be necessary for cuts like "West Coast Blues" and Sonny Rollins 's "Airegin.
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30
A great, often overlooked LP from the Riverside era, featuring a support team of pianist Victor Feldman , bassist Sam Jones , flautist James Caly and drummer Louis Hayes .
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40
Shedding the temptation of bop purist revisionism that creeps into most assessments of Wes Montgomery, this Jazz Masters volume gives newcomers a good cross-section of his Verve recordings, the orche
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41
Although this is billed to Wes Montgomery, it is in fact a combination of two early-'60s LPs by the Montgomery Brothers -- The Montgomery Brothers and The Montgomery Brothers in Canada -- onto one di
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43
Well-selected covers given the Wes treatment highlight this session with organist Mel Rhyne and drummer Jimmy Cobb; the CD reissue includes multiple takes of "Besame Mucho" and Montgomery's classic "
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44
The two-CD set Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sessions salvages Wes Montgomery's straight jazz sessions for Verve, leaving the pop-oriented covers and orchestral sessions to the original albums.
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45
The title of this compilation tries to make Montgomery viable for a younger generation, but it's not exactly "acid jazz.
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47
As part of the Finest Hour series from Verve, guitarist Wes Montgomery is spotlighted on 16 tracks recorded between 1964 and his death in 1968.
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50
Although serious fans and collectors will have little use for the disc, Ultimate Wes Montgomery is a solid collection of 12 highlights from the guitarist's Verve recordings as selected by George Bens
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51
This fill-in-the-gaps compilation of early-'60s sessions includes six tracks (two of them alternate takes) that were previously only available on the box set The Complete Riverside Recordings, and th
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52
Wes Montgomery's live sessions at the Half Note in 1965 were widely acclaimed when they were finally released in 1969, the year after his death.
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53
Though parts of this disc, three-fourths of which was recorded with the Claus Ogerman Orchestra, are indicative of the direction Montgomery was about to take with A&M Records, "Bumpin' On Sunset" and
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57
Creed Taylor produced. Although it's pop-oriented, it still offers plenty of fine Montgomery.
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