Encores, Volume Two continues the roundup of Wes Montgomery's cherishable alternate takes, 8 of the 10 of which were previously available entirely on the 12-CD box. The album picks upwards the iii additional tracks from the alive Full House sessions non included on the CD version, moves on to an extensive five-tune sampling of Montgomery's sole Riverside album amongst strings, Fusion!, as well as concludes amongst a couplet of organ-trio outtakes from 1963. The Full House department reaches a peak amongst a burning rendition of "Blue 'N' Boogie," acre "Cariba" is audibly less good organized than the approved take. The alternate versions of the Fusion! tracks are equally lovely equally the approved ones (the string fluff at the unopen of "Prelude to a Kiss" notwithstanding), as well as it is a pleasance to induce got another, brisker induce got of the best nautical chart on the session, "Tune-Up." Of the in conclusion 2 tracks, the close valuable is the remake of "Movin' Along" inward the organ-trio format, which sounds meliorate without the dry, toneless flute of James Clay. For collectors who induce got hunted downwards all of the original LPs or CDs as well as detect the 12-CD box a chip expensively redundant, or for newcomers who desire an introduction to the Riverside recordings, this as well as Encores: Volume One are highly recommendable.
This album is as well as then proficient it got me arrested!!...The rare option version of Cariba on this album is as well as then amazingly good, I cannot resist playing it at sum book acre cruising Government Street. If entirely the disturbance laws could discriminate betwixt dissonance as well as the finest jazz. Anyway cops induce got no gustation inward music.
Track listing:
01
Born To Be Blue (take 1)
7:14
02
Blue 'n' Boogie (take 1)
10:52
03
Cariba (take 1)
8:18
04
The Girl Next Door (take 1)
3:03
05
God Bless The Child (take 2)
3:13
06
Prelude To Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Kiss (take 2)
3:03
07
Tune-Up (take 1)
4:47
08
Baubles, Bangles And Beads (take 3)
2:19
09
The Trick Bag (take 6)
5:01
10
Movin' Along
7:27
Personnel:
WES MONTGOMERY-guitar
JOHNNY GRIFFIN-tenor saxaphone
WYNTON KELLY, DICK HYMAN, HANK JONES-piano
MELVIN RHYNE-organ
KENNY BURRELL-rhythm guitar
PAUL CHAMBERS OR MILT JACKSON-bass
JIMMY COBB, OSIE JOHNSON, GEORGE BROWN-drums
PHIL BODNER-woodwinds
amongst strings (GENE ORLOFF-cocertmaster)
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