Wes Montgomery's Finest Hour (1964) more music like this

by Wes Montgomery

As part of the Finest Hour series from Verve, guitarist Wes Montgomery is spotlighted on 16 tracks recorded between 1964 and his death in 1968. These sessions highlight the widely accepted jazz-pop combination he achieved on these Verve and A&M releases, which followed a four-year stint on Riverside where he attracted a limited, mainly jazz ...

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Bumpin' (1965) more music like this

by Wes Montgomery

Taking the listener on a smoother, rather than bumpier, ride down the moonlight highway of jazz is Wes Montgomery, a chief architect of the world's guitar virtuoso scene. Not only is his brilliant command of the six-string present here, so is the vivid color tones of notes and blue notes played between. Backed up by a hauntingly beautiful and ...

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Oceana (2006) more music like this

by Till Brönner

For those in America who hadn't previously heard of Germany's most famous contemporary jazz musician, it would only take a few notes from his crisp, distant trumpet to elicit a comparison to Chris Botti. Beyond his tonal approach and penchant for relaxing, atmospheric, and lushly arranged standards, Till Brönner has much in common with his ...

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20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection (2006) more music like this

by Wes Montgomery

Wes Montgomery recorded for Riverside, Verve, and A&M Records, with his most popular and least jazz-oriented discs produced for the latter two labels. Both of them are now subsumed within the major label Universal, and Universal's Hip-O reissue imprint here presents a Montgomery title as part of the discount-priced best-of series 20th Century ...

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Jazz 'Round Midnight: Wes Montgomery (1994) more music like this

by Wes Montgomery

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Verve Jazz Masters 14 (1964) more music like this

by Wes Montgomery

Shedding the temptation of bop purist revisionism that creeps into most assessments of Wes Montgomery, this Jazz Masters volume gives newcomers a good cross-section of his Verve recordings, the orchestral Wes along with the small-group Wes. The sequencing, though out of chronological order, is quite clever and musical. Someone who has never heard ...

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Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz (1964) more music like this

by Wes Montgomery

The title of this compilation tries to make Montgomery viable for a younger generation, but it's not exactly "acid jazz." Rather, it's an anthology of some of Montgomery's better pop- and soul-oriented material from the mid-'60s. The 16 tracks show Montgomery in both orchestral and small combo settings, a few cuts taken from his collaborations ...

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Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz (1995) more music like this

by Various Artists

Kicking off Verve's series of soul jazz-focused compilations and single-artist collections, Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz offers up a hefty sampling of some of the best groove-friendly tracks from the years 1954-1972. The first of the two discs here features combo and big-band cookers by the likes of Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Smith, Willie Bobo, ...

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All Night Long (2001) more music like this

by Dylan Cramer

This 1998 session by Vancouver-based Dylan Cramer was originally issued on the Casa label and now has been reconstituted by the German Nagel Heyer group. Cramer claims allegiance to Sonny Criss as his main influence and his alto has a similar full, rich sound and singular vibrato that were Criss' trademark after he threw off the mantle of a ...

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Warm & Sonny (1976) more music like this

by Sonny Criss

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