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Airegin (Rollins) | Wes Montgomery | The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960)
- Wes Montgomery the incredible jazz guitar
- Tommy Flanagan piano
- Percy Heath bass
- Albert Heath drums
"I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat."
(Source: jazzpages)
Wes Montgomery talks about the guitar as an instrument that is constantly out of tune (something to do with our equal temperament as well) and plays I Love Blues, whose scale is thought to have arisen from the unique intervals in some African musical traditions.
Netherlands, 1965.
I caught him playing Airegin on the radio yesterday before my prom, and that really got me in the mood. Wes we can, we can give it a listen.
- Wes Montgomery the incredible jazz guitar featured
- Pim Jacobs piano
- Ruud Jacobs bass
- Han Bennink drums
Wes Montgomery plays Four On Six with Stan Tracey (piano), Rick Laird (bass) and Jackie Dougan (drums).
Neat camera work too.
Wes Montgomery’s Blue Grass, in rehearsal for the NDR Jazz Workshop at the NDR Studio 10, Hamburg, West Germany, April 30 1965.
The song itself starts at 2:00, after the übercool TV-programme intro and some playing around by Wes Montgomery and Martial Solal, and each of the musicians is given a chance to solo. Ronnie Scott’s in there.
I urge you to take a good look at Wes’ guitar playing style. It’s quite impressive!
Turns out the song that preceded my previous post “On Green Dolphin Street” was *not* Nuits de Saint-Germain-de-Près (which I shall post - again?), by Django Reinhardt, as I supposed from the interval right before it starts.
It is actually this song, and its ending sounds quite similar.
Musicianship in this is, as before noted, mind-blowing!
The Artists:
- Guitar: Wes Montgomery
- Piano: Martial Solal
- Bass: Michel Gaudry
- Drums: Ronnie Stephenson
- Alto Sax: Hans Koller
- Tenor Sax: Johnnie Griffin
and Ronnie Scott - Baritone: Ronnie Ross
