SO Much Guitar!
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SO Much Guitar! is the sixth album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1961. It has been reissued by Original Jazz Classics.[1]
All the tracks are available on the Wes Montgomery compilation CD The Complete Riverside Recordings.
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
PopMatters | [3] |
Down Beat | [4] |
AllMusic critic Scott Yanow called the album "one of Wes Montgomery's finest recordings... All eight performances are memorable in their own way"[2] PopMatters journalist Neil Kelly wrote "SO Much Guitar! is Montgomery at his most comfortably virile ... one of the finest recordings you’ll ever put in your player."[3]
Track listing
- "Twisted Blues" (Wes Montgomery) – 5:31
- "Cotton Tail" (Duke Ellington) – 3:38
- "I Wish I Knew" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 5:26
- "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So" (Ellington, Mack David) – 5:57
- "Repetition" (Neal Hefti) – 3:48
- "Somethin' Like Bags" (Montgomery) – 4:44
- "While We're Young" (Morty Palitz, Alec Wilder) – 2:12
- "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 7:38
Personnel
- Wes Montgomery – guitar
- Ron Carter – bass
- Lex Humphries – drums
- Ray Barretto – conga
- Hank Jones – piano
Production notes:
- Orrin Keepnews – producer
- Ray Fowler – engineer
References
- ^ AllMusic entry for So Much Guitar. Retrieved November 2009.
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "So Much Guitar > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
- ^ a b Kelly, Neil (20 October 2013). "Wes Montgomery: So Much Guitar!". PopMatters.
- ^ Down Beat: January 4, 1962 vol. 29, no. 1