JAZZ Wes Montgomery – In the Beginning [2CD]

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JAZZ Wes Montgomery – In the Beginning   [CD]

 

Track listing

 

CD1

1

After You've Gone

04:59

2

Fascinating Rhythm

04:23

3

Brazil

04:13

4

What Is There to Say?

05:45

5

Four

05:28

6

Wes' Time

06:06

7

My Heart Stood Still

05:58

8

How High the Moon

05:13

9

Django

05:53

10

Going Down to Big Mary's

03:26

11

I Should Care

03:25

12

Caravan

04:51

13

Six Bridges to Cross

02:53

14

Ralph's New Blues

07:00

CD2

1

Soft Winds

11:58

2

Robbins' Nest

12:30

3

A Night in Tunisia

05:17

4

Love for Sale

03:53

5

Leila

02:56

6

Blues

03:18

7

Undecided

03:07

8

Far Wes

03:18

9

All the Things You Are

12:04

10

King Trotter

02:38

11

Carlena's Blues

02:51

12

Smooth Sailing

02:54

 

see also CD scan pictures

 

Personnel & Recording Dates:

CD2, #10-12: Gene Morris Band : Gene Morris (ts) Douglas Duke (p) Wes Montgomery (g) prob Roy Johnson (b) Ellis Bartee (d) Sonny Parker (vcl)

Rec:     Los Angeles, c. September 1949

CD2, #4-8: Wes Montgomery & The Montgomery-Johnson Quintet : Alonzo Johnson (ts) Buddy Montgomery (p) Wes Montgomery (g) Monk Montgomery (b) Robert "Sonny" Johnson (d)

Rec:     New York, June 15, 1955

CD1, #1,3: Wes Montgomery & The Montgomery-Johnson Quintet : Alonzo "Pookie" Johnson (ts) Buddy Montgomery (p,perc) Wes Montgomery (g) Monk Montgomery (b) Robert "Sonny" Johnson (d)

Rec:     Live, "Turf Club", Indianapolis, IN, August 22, 1956

CD1, #2,4,5,6,7,9,12,13: Wes Montgomery & The Montgomery-Johnson Quintet : Alonzo "Pookie" Johnson (ts,perc-1) Buddy Montgomery (p,perc-1) Wes Montgomery (g) Monk Montgomery (b) Robert "Sonny" Johnson (d)

Rec:     Live, "Turf Club", Indianapolis, IN, August 25, 1956

CD1, #14: Buddy Montgomery (vib) Jack Coker (p) Wes Montgomery (b) Robert "Sonny" Johnson (d)

Rec:     Live, Ervena Montgomery's home, Indianapolis, IN, September 8, 1956

CD1, #10,11: Alonzo "Pookie" Johnson (ts) Buddy Montgomery (p) Wes Montgomery (g) John Dale (b) Robert "Sonny" Johnson (d) Debbie Andrews (vcl)

Rec:     Live, "Turf Club", Indianapolis, IN, November 8, 1956

CD1, #8: Alonzo "Pookie" Johnson (ts) Buddy Montgomery (p) Wes Montgomery (g) John Dale (b) Robert "Sonny" Johnson (d)

Rec:     Live, "Turf Club", Indianapolis, IN, November 20, 1956

CD2, #9: Alonzo "Pookie" Johnson (ts) Wes Montgomery (g) and others

Rec:     Live, "C&C Music Lounge", Chicago, IL, 1957

CD2, #  1-3: Melvin Rhyne (p on ”Soft Winds”) Richie Crabtree (p on “Robbins’ Nest & “Night in Tunisia”) Wes Montgomery (g) Flip Stewart (b on ”Soft Winds”) Monk Montgomery (b on “Robbins’ Nest & “Night in Tunisia”) Paul Parker (d)

Rec:     Live, "Missile Lounge", Indianapolis, IN, November 22, 1958

 

Wes Montgomery was one of the great jazz guitarists, a natural extension of Charlie Christian, whose appealing use of octaves became influential and his trademark. He achieved great commercial success during his last few years, only to die prematurely.

It had taken Wes a long time to become an overnight success. He started to teach himself guitar in 1943 (using his thumb rather than a pick) and toured with Lionel Hampton during 1948-1950; he can be heard on a few broadcasts from the period. But then Montgomery returned to Indianapolis, where he was in obscurity during much of the 1950s, working a day job and playing at clubs most nights. He recorded with his brothers vibraphonist Buddy and electric bassist Monk during 1957-1959 and made his first Riverside album (1959) in a trio with organist Melvin Rhyne. (Scott Yanow, allmusic)

 

Resonance Records:

In the Beginning features recordings of Wes Montgomery spanning the years 1949 to 1958, the formative years when the six-string virtuoso was honing his craft in Southern Indiana. Since Wes Montgomery’s passing in 1968, only two other albums of predominantly unreleased material have been released: Willow Weep for Me (Verve, 1968) and Echoes of Indiana Avenue (Resonance, 2012). Resonance Records is pleased to introduce the third such archival offering with In the Beginning.

 

The 26-track collection will be released on May 12, 2015 as two-CD and three-LP sets. The CD version includes a 55-page booklet of liner notes by 2015 GRAMMY® Award-winning journalist and noted jazz historian and biographer Ashley Kahn, legendary producer Quincy Jones, guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who and others, alongside rare never-before-published photos from the Montgomery Estate and friends in Montgomery’s native Indianapolis.

 

In his liner notes, Kahn refers to In the Beginning as a journey back in time. Listeners will be gripped by the history and experiences underlying these recordings during this time of segregation, a time when the South had a brewing fear of integration. Musicians used back entrances to clubs, only to appear on the bandstand as entertainment, and were asked to leave at the end of their sets. The journey begins on the stage of Indianapolis’ Turf Club in the summer of 1956 and travels backward and forward over the course of two discs until arriving in the studios of Spire Records in Fresno, California in 1949, where a 26-year-old Montgomery was working as a sideman in a band led by tenor saxophonist Gene Morris that featured Sonny Parker on vocals.

 

This time machine makes stops at the home of younger sister Ervena Montgomery, where Wes uncharacteristically picks up – and solos on – an electric bass; at Indianapolis’ Missile Lounge in November 1958, where Wes is joined by organist and pianist Melvin Rhyne, bassist Flip Stewart and drummer Paul Parker; at the C&C Music Lounge on the South Side of Chicago for a twelve-minute 1957 exploration of “All the Things You Are” with tenor saxophonist Alonzo “Pookie” Johnson; and at Columbia Studios in New York City in 1955, where brothers Wes, Buddy and Monk Montgomery, “Pookie” and drummer Sonny Johnson were recorded and produced by a young Quincy Jones for the then-new Epic Records (recorded at the same studio that Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue). For nearly 60 years, all five songs from that session (except “Love for Sale,” which later appeared on the 1983 Columbia Records compilation Almost Forgotten) have languished in the vaults.

 

The project began life in the wake of Echoes. Even before that release, Buddy Montgomery’s widow Ann approached producer Zev Feldman and Resonance founder and executive producer George Klabin with the Turf Club, Missile Lounge, and jam session recordings, looking for a respectful home for this never-before-released music. Philip Kahl, a 22-year-old Butler College student, had access to the brothers and recorded them at the aforementioned places with a portable tape recorder.

 

The revelations snowballed from there. A colleague offered up a tape made at the C&C Music Lounge, and a private collector in Austria revealed three 78 rpm sides featuring Wes as a sideman with Gene Morris and his Hamptones, two of them featuring vocalist Sonny Parker. “The 78s were rare and very difficult to find. Even the Library of Congress didn’t have them,” Feldman says. Drummer and jazz historian Kenny Washington tipped Feldman to the existence of the previously unissued Epic recordings, which were licensed from Sony Music Entertainment. Also included are tracks from the now sold-out limited edition 10″ records Live at the Turf Club and Wes Montgomery & the Montgomery-Johnson Quintet issued for Record Store Day in April 2014.

 

In the Beginning features extensive liner notes and meticulously designed artwork that have become the label’s trademarks. The booklet begins with an introduction by producer Feldman and an essay by Kahn. The package also features a reminiscence by Quincy Jones; a biography of the Montgomery-Johnson Quintet (the name at that time of the brothers’ band with the unrelated Alfonso “Pookie” Johnson and drummer Sonny Johnson) by author and journalist Bill Milkowksi; an interview with Indianapolis- based jazz photojournalist, author and historian Duncan Schiedt, conducted shortly before his death in March 2014; a contribution by Dr. Willis F. Kirk, a drummer and former bandmate of the Montgomery brothers; an interview with Indianapolis native and legendary jazz bassist Dr. Larry Ridley (who was discovered to be the previously unidentified bassist on two tracks from the 2012 release of Echoes of Indiana Avenue, “Diablo’s Dance” and “Nica’s Dream”); and lastly a contribution by fellow guitar icon and lead guitarist and songwriter for the legendary rock group the Who, Pete Townshend. Feldman adds, “I wanted someone who was ‘outside’ the typical jazz guitar circle who admired Wes’s music. I suspected he was a fan of jazz guitar, based on the recording “To Barney Kessell” from his album Scoop, so I sent him copies of Echoes in 2012. Having him as a contributor on this project was an honor and privilege.”

 

In his essay, Townshend writes, “What comes across [in these recordings] is a sense of fun and discovery. There is mischief and experiment. This was a period when jazz was breaking ground on all fronts, and I hadn’t realized how sophisticated a guitarist Wes was even in these early days . . . He stopped playing so flashily in the next decade, and concentrated more on atmosphere and expression – his playing became loving, gentle and poetic. He became a romantic. But on these sessions he’s a young blade, rocking out, speeding sometimes, challenged by his brother Buddy on piano who could elaborate either like falling drops of water on a tin roof, or like a machine gun.”

 

The In the Beginning booklet features passages from Monk Montgomery’s 1980 NEA-sponsored interview with Maggie Hawthorne, along with excerpts from a never-before-released, unpublished autobiography written by Buddy Montgomery. There are recollections by Buddy, including an interview with his sister Ervena. Buddy’s estate provided a wealth of rare photographs, such as a remarkable shot of Wes Montgomery standing behind a pinball machine taken by Philip Kahl at the Turf Club.

 

The three-LP version is presented on 180-gram vinyl mastered by engineering legend Bernie Grundman, and pressed on 12″ LPs at 33 1/3 rpm by Record Technology Incorporated (R.T.I.) in a hand-numbered slipcase with an eight-panel booklet, a digital download card and collector postcards of unpublished photos. Digitally, a “Mastered for iTunes” configuration will also be available, along with a complete digital booklet with all contents contained in the physical editions. If pre-ordered on iTunes, customers will receive four tracks instantly: “Four” (recorded at the Turf Club), “A Night in Tunisia” (recorded at the Missile Lounge), “Far Wes” (recorded for Epic Records in 1955), and “Smooth Evening” (recorded in 1949 for Spire Records).

 

The set is attractively designed by Burton Yount, who has collaborated with Resonance on previous releases including Wes Montgomery’s Echoes of Indiana Ave and Bill Evans’ Live at Art D’Lugoff’s Top of the Gate. This project is made possible with the help of Robert Montgomery, Wes’s youngest son and the head of the Wes Montgomery Estate, who signed on as associate producer.

 

In short, as Feldman says, “This is another chapter of previously undiscovered Wes, one which aficionados couldn’t have even hoped existed a few short years ago. Resonance is proud to present another chapter in the legacy of Wes Montgomery.” Finally, if it couldn’t get any better for Wes Montgomery fans, Resonance has signed on with the Wes Montgomery Estate to release even more previously unissued music sometime in 2016-2017. Resonance Records is making history preserving and documenting the legacy of Wes Montgomery, even 47 years after the giant’s passing.

 

Label: Resonance Records HCD-2014 (P+C 2014) [CD]

 

EAN 724101773129

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  • Condition: Neu
  • Stilrichtung: Jazz Guitar
  • Produktart: Album
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Genre: Jazz
  • EAN: 0724101773129
  • Interpret: Wes Montgomery
  • Format: CD
  • Musiktitel: In The Beginning [2 Cd] [2 Discs]
  • Musiklabel: Resonance Records

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