Guitar on the Go has been reissued on CD past times Original Jazz Classics alongside an additional accept of "The Way You Look Tonight" equally good equally a bonus rail "Unidentified Solo Guitar". It was besides released on the Fantasy label alongside the original rail listing in addition to the bonus rail "Mi Cosa".
The in conclusion Riverside unloosen of Wes Montgomery fabric (before the of import label went completely bankrupt) was similar to his debut 4 years earlier: a trio alongside organist Melvin Rhyne in addition to an obscure drummer (this fourth dimension George Brown). In general, the music swings difficult (particularly the 2 versions of "The Way You Look Tonight"), in addition to is a worthy if non essential add-on to Wes Montgomery's discography. He would receive got a few straight-ahead dates for Verve, but this unloosen was actually the terminate of an era.
The chronologically in conclusion Riverside album from Wes Montgomery picks up, mostly, where "Portrait of Wes" left off: a in conclusion few rounds alongside his dearest guitar-organ-drums trio format. Now, at that topographic point are 2 ways to accept this set, aside from the cool flaming that seeps from every banknote sounded past times the master copy in addition to his longtime organist Mel Rhyne: 1) Take it on its own, in addition to don't concord it against a collapsing company, changing ownership in addition to lifestyle, that they repeat-released a duet of blues jewels from Montgomery's ain pen, the early on (as in, 1959) "Missile Blues" in addition to the latter-day "Fried Pies"; or, 2) bypass those 2 numbers in addition to pose the residuum onto a unmarried disc alongside the "Portrait of Wes" material, if yous actually desire to move prickly most it.
For me, I don't heed the repeat-released "Missile Blues" in addition to (especially) "Fried Pies" (where Jimmy Cobb, the incandescent drummer alongside whom Montgomery would operate in i lawsuit to a greater extent than on the Half Note sessions alongside the Wynton Kelly Trio, joins Montgomery in addition to Rhyne), if solely because I had the habit of playing them repeatedly on their original album releases. Nor exercise I heed getting 2 takes of "The Way You Look Tonight," the shorter alternate accept equally lovely in addition to lyrical equally the nine-minute romantic monster that was issued originally. The "Unidentified Solo Guitar," non purpose of the original album, would move remade inward due course of educational activity (as "Mi Cosa," on "Bumpin'"), during Montgomery's Verve period, alongside a nicely arrayed string section, but taken hither on its ain it is simply equally embracing in addition to would likely receive got been a perfect lucifer on the original release.
The to a greater extent than yous listen of them, the to a greater extent than yous come upwards to want Wes Montgomery had been able to pick out at to the lowest degree Mel Rhyne along to his Verve years; Rhyne is attuned to Montgomery's gently fiery mode inward ways that fifty-fifty the keen Jimmy Smith (cutting 2 magnificent Verve albums alongside Montgomery) couldn't quite lock in. Montgomery in addition to Rhyne play equally though completing each other's statements in addition to knowing what the other human being thinks in addition to feels before it's expressed, then seamless are both the shifts from i to the other soloist in addition to the knit of i or the other's accompaniment. Regular drummer George Brown was equally painterly a drummer equally Montgomery e'er worked with.
You listen music similar this in addition to you're non inward the to the lowest degree surprised that, whatever he did before or afterward, Wes Montgomery never felt equally much at dwelling equally when working this trio format. And they brand yous experience correct at dwelling alongside them, fifty-fifty now. The Wes Montgomery Trio fifty-fifty inward 2004 makes most of what has passed for jazz inward their fourth dimension in addition to beyond audio somewhere betwixt self-congratulatory in addition to shiftless. It would move no disgrace if Fantasy, which controls the Riverside catalogue, should arrive at a box laid upwards composed strictly of the consummate Wes Montgomery Trio recordings. This group, almost equally much equally its guitarist in addition to 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, half-dozen & 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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