Guitar on the Go has been reissued on CD yesteryear Original Jazz Classics amongst an additional postulate maintain of "The Way You Look Tonight" equally good equally a bonus rail "Unidentified Solo Guitar". It was too released on the Fantasy label amongst the original rail listing as well as the bonus rail "Mi Cosa".
The lastly Riverside unloose of Wes Montgomery fabric (before the of import label went completely bankrupt) was similar to his debut 4 years earlier: a trio amongst organist Melvin Rhyne as well as an obscure drummer (this fourth dimension George Brown). In general, the music swings difficult (particularly the 2 versions of "The Way You Look Tonight"), as well as is a worthy if non essential improver to Wes Montgomery's discography. He would postulate maintain a few straight-ahead dates for Verve, but this unloose was actually the cease of an era.
The chronologically lastly Riverside album from Wes Montgomery picks up, mostly, where "Portrait of Wes" left off: a lastly few rounds amongst his honey guitar-organ-drums trio format. Now, at that spot are 2 ways to postulate maintain this set, aside from the cool open fire that seeps from every complaint sounded yesteryear the master copy as well as his longtime organist Mel Rhyne: 1) Take it on its own, as well as don't concord it against a collapsing company, changing ownership as well as lifestyle, that they repeat-released a brace of blues jewels from Montgomery's ain pen, the early on (as in, 1959) "Missile Blues" as well as the latter-day "Fried Pies"; or, 2) bypass those 2 numbers as well as position the residual onto a unmarried disc amongst the "Portrait of Wes" material, if you lot actually desire to live prickly nigh it.
For me, I don't postulate heed the repeat-released "Missile Blues" as well as (especially) "Fried Pies" (where Jimmy Cobb, the incandescent drummer amongst whom Montgomery would travel ane time again on the Half Note sessions amongst the Wynton Kelly Trio, joins Montgomery as well as Rhyne), if solely because I had the habit of playing them repeatedly on their original album releases. Nor practise I postulate heed getting 2 takes of "The Way You Look Tonight," the shorter alternate postulate maintain equally lovely as well as lyrical equally the nine-minute romantic monster that was issued originally. The "Unidentified Solo Guitar," non part of the original album, would live remade inwards due class (as "Mi Cosa," on "Bumpin'"), during Montgomery's Verve period, amongst a nicely arrayed string section, but taken hither on its ain it is but equally embracing as well as would likely postulate maintain been a perfect gibe on the original release.
The to a greater extent than you lot hear of them, the to a greater extent than you lot come upwardly to wishing Wes Montgomery had been able to convey at to the lowest degree Mel Rhyne along to his Verve years; Rhyne is attuned to Montgomery's gently fiery manner inwards ways that fifty-fifty the bully Jimmy Smith (cutting 2 magnificent Verve albums amongst Montgomery) couldn't quite lock in. Montgomery as well as Rhyne play equally though completing each other's statements as well as knowing what the other homo thinks as well as feels before it's expressed, then seamless are both the shifts from ane to the other soloist as well as the knit of ane or the other's accompaniment. Regular drummer George Brown was equally painterly a drummer equally Montgomery always worked with.
You hear music similar this as well as you're non inwards the to the lowest degree surprised that, whatever he did before or afterward, Wes Montgomery never felt equally much at habitation equally when working this trio format. And they brand you lot experience correct at habitation amongst them, fifty-fifty now. The Wes Montgomery Trio fifty-fifty inwards 2004 makes most of what has passed for jazz inwards their fourth dimension as well as beyond audio somewhere betwixt self-congratulatory as well as shiftless. It would live no disgrace if Fantasy, which controls the Riverside catalogue, should create a box laid upwardly composed strictly of the consummate Wes Montgomery Trio recordings. This group, almost equally much equally its guitarist as well as leader, was a approbation upon jazz.
Recorded at Plaza Sound Studios, New York City : Nov 27, 1963 - (Tracks 1 & 4), Oct 10, 1963 - (Tracks 2, 3, six & 8), Apr 22, 1963 - (Track 7), Oct 5, 1959 - (Track 5)
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Track listing:
1. "The Way You Look Tonight" [Alternate take] (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) – 5:48
2. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Kern, Fields) – 9:08
3. "Dreamsville" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, Henry Mancini) – 3:48
4. "Geno" (Wes Montgomery) – 2:53
5. "Missile Blues" (Montgomery) – 5:57
6. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) – 4:29
7. "Fried Pies" (Montgomery) – 6:41
8. "Unidentified Solo Guitar" (Montgomery) – 3:37
Personnel:
Wes Montgomery – guitar
Melvin Rhyne – organ
George Brown – drums
Jimmy Cobb – drums
Paul Parker – drums
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