SO Much Guitar!
1961 studio album by Wes Montgomery
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| Studio album by Wes Montgomery | ||||
| Released | October 1961[1] | |||
| Recorded | August 4, 1961 | |||
| Studio | Plaza Sound Studios, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 38:54 | |||
| Label | Riverside | |||
| Producer | Orrin Keepnews | |||
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So Much Guitar! (stylized on the original album cover as SO Much Guitar!) is an album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released by Riverside Records in 1961. It was reissued by Fantasy Records as a part of the Original Jazz Classics series.[2]
All the tracks are available on the Wes Montgomery compilation CD The Complete Riverside Recordings.
Reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| DownBeat |  [5] |
| Tom Hull | B+ ( )[7] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [6] |
| PopMatters |   [4] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
AllMusic critic Scott Yanow called the album "one of Wes Montgomery's finest recordings... All eight performances are memorable in their own way."[3] 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."[4]
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
- Hank Jones – piano
- Ron Carter – bass
- Ray Barretto – conga
- Lex Humphries – drums
Production
- Orrin Keepnews – producer
- Ray Fowler – engineer
References
- ^ "Billboard". October 16, 1961.
- ^ 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
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1026. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Hull, Tom (December 2013). "Recycled Goods (#115)". A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge. Tom Hull. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
- ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 485.
External links
- Jazz Discography
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- Groove Yard (1961)
- George Shearing and the Montgomery Brothers (1961)
- The Montgomery Brothers in Canada (1961)
- Fingerpickin' (1958)
- The Wes Montgomery Trio (1959)
- The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960)
- Movin' Along (1960)
- SO Much Guitar! (1961)
- Bags Meets Wes! (1961)
- Full House (1962)
- Fusion! Wes Montgomery with Strings (1963)
- Boss Guitar (1963)
- Portrait of Wes (1963)
- Guitar on the Go (1963)
- The Alternative Wes Montgomery (1963)
- Movin' Wes (1964)
- Bumpin' (1965)
- Smokin' at the Half Note (1965)
- Goin' out of My Head (1965)
- Body and Soul (Live at Ronnie Scott's Club) (1965)
- California Dreaming (1966)
- Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo (1966)
- Tequila (1966)
- A Day in the Life (1967)
- Down Here on the Ground (1968)
- Road Song (1968)
- Willow Weep for Me (1969)
- The Complete Riverside Recordings (1992)
- One Night in Indy (2015)
- It's Never Too Late (1969)
- Bass Odyssey (1971)
- Reality (1974)
- Monk Montgomery in Africa...Live! (1975)
- This Rather Than That (1969)
- Live at Maybeck Recital Hall (1991)
- The King and I (1957)
- Kismet (1958)
- Flower Drum Song (1958)
- Ballads and Blues (1959)
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