While three records and six sides of music sourced from radio airchecks and audience tapes might sound a little excessive to some, Maximum Swing delivers on its promise. It fleshes out the picture from the famed Smokin’ at the Half Note record and shows it wasn’t just a lone night of musical inspiration. And while this group has been documented elsewhere – 2017’s Smokin’ In Seattle, for example – this is a good chance to hear them on their home turf and for an appreciative crowd. It’s another welcome piece to the Montgomery canon, and another example that he didn’t settle down into pop-jazz in the last years of his life.
Category: Wes Montgomery
Wynton Kelly + Wes Montgomery :: The Half Note, NYC 1965
The first half of this smokin’ mid-60s radio broadcast features the Wynton Kelly Trio breezing through some bop standards. Not particularly adventurous or boundary-breaking stuff, but that’s no diss – these guys could swing like no one else…
Bill Evans: Evans In England / Wes Montgomery: Back On Indiana Avenue
Hot on the heels of last year’s revelatory Eric Dolphy release, Resonance Records returns this spring with two essential sets of previously unheard jazz bliss, all presented with characteristic care and love.
Wes Montgomery :: In Paris / The Definitive ORTF Recording
Resonance Records has been digging up a number of previously unheard recordings from the legendary jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery in recent years. Their latest effort is more familiar – but […]
Wes Montgomery :: One Night In Indy
The jazz archaeologists at Resonance Records keep on coming up with fantastic relics. Their latest release is a heretofore unknown and unreleased live gig from January 1959, featuring the great […]