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Boxset / Compilation · 2013

Filed under Hard Bop
By WES MONTGOMERY

Tracklist

CD 1:
1 Finger Pickin' (Montgomery) 2:30
2 Sound Carrier (Montgomery) 6:55
3 Lois Ann (Montgomery) 4:44
4 Bud's Beaux Arts (Montgomery) 7:31
5 Bock to Bock (Montgomery) 10:07
6 All the Things You Are (Hammerstein, Kern) 3:57
7 Billie's Bounce (Parker) 4:40
8 Far Wes (Montgomery) 5:55
9 Leila (Montgomery) 3:30
10 Old Folks (Hill, Robison) 6:38
11 Wes' Tune (Montgomery) 4:11
12 Hymn for Carl (Land) 4:37
13 Montgomeryland Funk (Montgomery) 4:03
14 Stompin' at the Savoy (Goodman, Razaf, Sampson, Webb) 4:24
15 Love for Sale (Porter) 3:42

CD 2 :
1 Summertime (Gershwin, Gershwin, Heyward ) 4:53
2 Monk's Shop (Montgomery) 3:58
3 Falling in Love With Love (Hart, Rodgers) 6:16
4 Renie (Montgomery) 3:33
5 Ouverture (Wright, Forrest) 6:40
6 And this is My Beloved (Wright, Forrest) 6:18
7 Fate (Wright, Forrest) 5:01
8 Stranger in Paradise (Borodin, Forrest, Wright) 4:54
9 Baubles, Bangles and Beads (Forrest, Wright) 3:27
10 Not Since Nineveh (Forrest, Wright) 7:24
11 A Good Git Together (Hendricks) 3:42
12 Feed Me (Hendricks) 3:49
13 Music in the Air (Hendricks, Gryce) 3:57
14 Pretty Strange (Hendricks, Weston) 2:53
15 The Shouter (Hendricks, Malhones) 5:03
16 Social Call (Hendricks, Gryce) 2:22
17 Out of the Past (Hendricks, Golson) 4:54

Line-up/Musicians

[Cd. 1, # 1-7] originally issued as "The Montgomery Brothers & Five Others" (World Pacific WP 1240)
Wes Montgomery -g
Freddie Hubbard - tp
Wayman Atkinson & Alonzo Johnson -ts
Buddy Montgomery - vb
Joe Bradley - p
Monk Montgomery - b
Paul Parker - dr
Recorded in Indianapolis, Indiana ; December 30, 1957.
[Cd. 1, # 8-14] originally issued as "Montgomeryland" (Pacific Jazz PJ 5)
Wes Montgomery -g
Harold Land - ts
Buddy Montgomery - p
Monk Montgomery - b
Tony Bazley - d
Recorded in Los Angeles ; April 18, 1958.
[Cd. 1, # 15] from the various artist compilation "Almost Forgotten" (Columbia FC 38509)
Alonzo Johnson - ts
Buddy Montgomery - p
Wes Montgomery - g
Monk Montgomery - b
Robert Johnson - dr
Recorded in New York City ; June 15, 1955.
[Cd. 2, # 1-4] from Pony "The Montgomeryland" LP
Wes Montgomery - g
Pony Poindexter - as
Buddy Montgomery - p
Monk Montgomery - b
Louis Hayes - d
Recorded in Los Angeles ; October 1, 1959.
[Cd. 2, # 5-10] from Mastersounds' "Kismet" (World Pacific WP 1243)
Monk Montgomery - b & ldr
Wes Montgomery - g
Buddy Montgomery - vb
Richie Crabtree - p
Benny Barth - dr
Recorded at Forum Theatre, Los Angeles ; April 22, 1958.
[Cd. 2, # 11-17] from John Hendricks' "A Good Git-Together" (World Pacific WP 1283)
Pony Poindexter - as & vcl
Gildo Mahones - p
Wes Montgomery - g
Monk Montgomery - b
Walter Bolden - d
Jon Hendricks - vcl
Recorded at Fugazi Hall, San Francisco ; October, 1959

About this release

Phoenix Records 131579

This release contains the complete classic albums “The Montgomery Brothers & Five Others” (1958), “Montgomeryland” (1959) and “Wes, Buddy & Monk” (1958). Also included are all the songs featuring solos by Wes Montgomery from the LPs “Kismet” (1958) and A Good Git Together (1959) and, as a final bonus, a rare 1955 Montgomery Brothers version of “Love for Sale” appearing here on CD for the first time ever - taken from a long out of print compilation LP called appropriately, “Almost Forgotten”