Quickly Wes Montgomery followers can be bumpin’ Bumpin’ on vinyl as soon as once more. The jazz guitar legend’s 1965 album can be reissued Dec. 12 as a part of Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Sequence.
Bumpin’ was a profession milestone for Montgomery: his first album to succeed in the Billboard charts, in addition to the primary to be nominated for Grammys. On the eighth Annual Grammys in 1966, Bumpin’ had Montgomery within the working for Greatest Authentic Jazz Composition and Greatest Instrumental Jazz Efficiency – Giant Group or Soloist with Giant Group.
Backed by Roger Kellaway on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Grady Tate on drums, plus an orchestra organized and carried out by Don Sebesky, the guitarist reveals off his delicate virtuosity all through the album. The fabric ranges from smoky Latin jazz to freewheeling bop to swooning balladry, with compositions from abilities like Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Mandel, John Francis Burke, and Montgomery himself.
Born in Indianapolis, Montgomery started educating himself guitar at age 19, impressed by the music of Charlie Christian. He developed a novel fashion of jazz guitar that turned wildly influential, making masterful use of octaves and thumb selecting. Even guitarists past the jazz world, corresponding to Jimi Hendrix, included components of Montgomery’s enjoying into their very own.
In 2023, Jazz Guitar At the moment known as him “the overall greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived,” whereas All Music Information praises him as “the most influential jazz guitarist of the 1960s, who expanded the resources of the guitar in each of its main areas: chordal, melodic, and rhythmic.” Earlier than his loss of life at age 45 from a coronary heart assault, he discovered intensive profession success, together with Grammy wins and chart-topping albums.
Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Sequence options transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging. This yr, the collection has included titles from Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Vacation, the John Coltrane Quartet, Roland Kirk, Buddy Man, Sonny Rollins, Diana Krall, Peggy Lee, Stan Getz, John Lee Hooker, and extra.
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