Wes Montgomery - Hamburg 1965

[jazzuffe]

Wes and Kollers making of music is magic.

[taketimeout2]

Bless Wes, he wasnt so into that .

He sort of played along and I guess this is one of those times where a player has to play with material he wouldnt put on his own top tunes to play list.

In fact he is caught daydreaming which is so cool and at the very end he doesnt exactly jump for joy unlike some of the others.

I LOVE the piano player.

Anyone know his name, please?

[LanceHelmut]

this really good rock n' roll band had just quit playin' gigs in hamburg by '65...so wes brings the oh so serious hard bop style to germany..i needed to be in hamburg back then ..i can tell you that...this is SMOKIN'...great post

[MrThatwentwell]

precussionist is amazing.

[Higgsbosone]

this a very good example of wes's better side :)

the other side is like typical american entertainment, or so called elevator music

[TheEdjc]

Perfect !



[univibe23]

Wow!! Stunning performance! This is a slice of Jazz Heaven! Not a weak link to be found in this performance!!

[Lukasoncapeta]

This is where jaga jazzist came from!!!

Good quality music.

[kevinherbert]

Me three....

[grimchain]

Wtf that piano guy is insane

[JoeWhy1]

@grimchain yeah for real, that's what i was thinking... poor 7 frames/sec camera lol

[pabloontube]

Veo que hay mucho Jazz en Facebook, asique les comparto un grande que disfrutamos mucho tiempo con mi viejo.

[SRVMOE]

George Benson has fingers like Wes !!!!!! and can play just like him too !!!!

[Megajosh2]

That piano player is fucking killing, good lord.

[snickpickle]

Man, who wouldn't want to play in a combo like this?  Outstanding! Great to see cool jazz in its historical context! keep 'em coming! :-)

[0viler]

Loving 6:14

[FunkySkunk90]

This is just great. The song's called Hamburg ?

[RiversideIndian]

Who's this song written by?

[tcolink]

hot damn this is cool - thanks

[richone99]

Jazz is the music liberated music makers.

[Bazzerpool1]

This is the recording that started it all for me back in 1994. Before that I was into Metallica. Got it on tape off an Irish radio show. Still gets me. Many thanks for sharing.

[realiquidation]

@Bazzerpool1

Thank you for the lovley story that provs my theory that ther's nothing like J A Z Z in the whole wide wourld

[Jayjen35]

@Bazzerpool1 Interesting you should say that. My dad asked me to look up some Wes Montgomery for him, so this is really the first time I've become familiar with him. I gotta say my favorite band is still Metallica, but there's definately room on my mp3 for a lot of Wes Montgomery too.

[cjoey39]

What a beautiful sound! These guys from a different age show so much grace and soul it's just inspiring! You can tell how much they just love having Wes Montgomery playing with them! Wow it's really just magical!! I love it!!! Joey Vaughan "World Blues Attack"

[gentilguy]

change the video's tags, i've been looking for it for 20 minutes.

[jazzuffe]

Can it be better?

[niueroo]

someones out at 19...tenor?

[RJSeserling]

Is this "A Cool Glass of Wine"?

[fujifour]

Yes it is, however its often mistaken as "The Leopard Walks"

[DYNODRUM]

If,This is'nt a Piece of archived gemology I dare not find words for its creation... Beautiful...

[karrramucho]

Best jazz I have ever listen!

[esdearte7]

¿como se llama la cancion?

the name of the song is...?

[prohibidoadelantar]

Mami!

[roflem1]

yes its Ronnie Stephenson.

[roflem1]

Does anybody know who the drummer is? could it be Ronnie Stephenson?

[DYNODRUM]

Phil Seaman

[sitarnut]

Wes has more soul in his little fingernail than Solal will have in 5,000 years and Solal's solo is fancy crap; has absolutely nothing to do with the blues.... the only people here who are playing blues are Johnny Griffin & WES...

[fujifour]

@sitarnut

I agree, Johnny and Wes got plenty more soul, but dont you think solal compliments their bluesy style. Wes' thumb is not human, i wish musicians like this existed today

[timwarneka]

@fujifour -

Agreed. Check out Pat Metheny ... he's out there touring today. He acknowledges Wes as a huge influence, and Metheny does some pretty super-human things on his fingerboard.

[fujifour]

Anything post 67' ish scares me, Pat is obviously very talented but i do not like that modern fusion style, its all about the golden decades 1920-to mid 1960's

[Hoopermazing]

@fujifour - I agree, but I'd put the cutoff mark at around 1958.

[fujifour]

@Hoopermazing I think you still get some lovely stuff post 50's, 60's Lee Morgan is lovely and this piece here, in the fact this whole session is great.

[Hoopermazing]

@fujifour - Well, there is no arguing with Lee Morgan, but my tastes run more toward the 1920s - 1940s. I was being liberal in my estimate by including most of the 1950s.

[fujifour]

Im not sure, you have to granted a pass or something, either way, its sitting in my uploads folder but they wont let me. Jazz should not have to be held back like this! haha especially when its as sublime as this performance, i gotta tell you guys Wes is good in this, but Solal is genius.

[fujifour]

This piece is called 'A Glass Of Cool Wine' and is only available on this session, there is a studio recording available too. As for the whole show its uploaded but youtube are stopping me because its too big sorry guys :(

[realiquidation]

TY for the inlightment fujifour

[cliffworks4321]

how come we can find some video on YT like 1 hour long? how do they get to do it?

[fanuvbrazil]

@fujifour : Where can I get a copy of the sheet music for this tune?

[fujifour]

@fanuvbrazil

I really am not sure about that im afraid. Try and listen out for it and transcribe it yourself if you can, it will do your ear the world of good!

[wonderlama6]

Does anyone know the name of this tune? What a fantastic video, everyone plays beautifully, and the composition is gorgeous. Again, anyone know what it's called?

[sitarnut]

No one has cut WES yet!

[iamJROD]

Johnny Smith is more advanced then Wes.

[d1thundergod]

aids is more "advanced" than h.i.v....

[iamJROD]

To d1thundergod... In the way you described it, its advanced for the worse. In the way I described it ,its advanced for the better. So carry on ,and have a great day. Thank You.

[d1thundergod]

advanced for the better?stick to the "smooth jazz"slick...you are welcome.

[decryptou]

is there any records ov dat sheet!!!

[blue47er]

Absoutely sparklingly inventine piano here from Solal.

[godofthesunn]

The keys the keys!!!

[Unixilandia]

I'm a huge Wes fan and Jazz is my Religion, but I'd never heard this composition..... I love the saxes on this, a gorgeous "curtain" of sound...In the beginning of the video Wes is strumming a beautiful ballad he would later record on his A&M releases. Wes lives forever!

[fujifour]

The switch from the soaring Sax solo of Koller to the odd phrasing from Solal is genius, i could listen to this all day. I have the whole show of this on my computer which i will upload if people would like that, im sure all you cool cats do :)

[loudrussell]

DO IT!!!!

[memzehni]

...for sure, fujifour!! Upload the whole show... thanx.

[paulyrulo]

@fujifour

PLEASE DO!

[09cinder]

@fujifour - Please upload for us!!! Thank you.

[tenoriximo]

johnny griffin on tenor

[KEEPTHEDEEP]

ther's someone who know the name of the track??

[AryDiegg]

It's calles Last Of The Wine from Ronnie Ross & his band. It's from the album Forum West

[KEEPTHEDEEP]

thank you very very very much!!!!!

[savida34e]

Thanks!

[crossroadblues90]

who's that pianist?

[drfeelgood883]

Martial Solal

[krzynka1]

isn't koller german?

[FlyingJazzPig]

no he isn't german, he is from Austria

[racine09]

Was that Ronnie Scott on sax also anyone?

[Vockulus]

Yes

[krzynka1]

holy shit, didn't know germans rocked so much in the 60. :)

great footage

[drwinkle101]

Wes is american. ronnie scott is a brit. I doubt many of these players are Germans!

[AryDiegg]

Amazing song! Hans Koller is really going to the max in his solo, and Solal is just amazing, just like Wes. Only Ross is my point of doubt. It sounds like he got the technique for his solo well prepared, but he just misses the breath for it sometimes... I tought at first it was just a mistake, but looking at some other videos of this record, it turns out to be the same... But anyway one of the best records I've heard, and I'm very happy to have it on my iPod so I can watch it all night long!! ;)

[waltzfordebby89]

WOW!! Who's the pianist?? Incredible solo

[CommandanteMarco]

his solo was nice...but a bit to short:)

[korjeklokismo]

This sounds a lot like the old swedish radio jazzband on the 60's. With Georg Riedel, Jan Johansson, Rune gustavsson, Egil Johansson and Arne Domnerus. Really good. :)

[korjeklokismo]

Egil Johansen* not Johansson. :)

[drainard]

Wes didn't use his pinky finger once in that solo. He's so adept at changing positions. Just an observation. I love Wes.

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

Whoa -- what a lineup, what a performance. So German TV wasn't always that bad ;-) Anyway: Wes was the most amazing guitarist ever.

Feel free to check out my little jazz site -- link is in my profile.

Thanx & Cheers,

Bruno "Brewgomery" Leicht

[Spidey2391]

whos the drummer ?

[muserik]

The drummer is Ronnie Stephenson

[ambic7]

when the sun swallows up the earth this music will be vibrating in space somewhere, good music lives forever...

[ReggaesRockers]

Hans Koller = Monster

[masqnuncalula]

Wes... the best.. alwalys!

[rinkydinkron]

The piano solo by Solal has got to be one of the finest in the history of jazz. Prior to watching this clip i'd never heard of the guy. Simply awesome!

[atanaghor]

Johnny griffin au premier plan!!

Pour GBagley, je ne crois pas qu'il existe un solo, voir une composition, de Martial solal qui ne soit pas parfaite.

[GBagley]

Martial Solal's solo in this song is easily one of my favorite solos ever. It's just perfect!

[LesCrapio]

That's why I don't like modern jazz. Why bother?

Btw, what's the name of the other musicians in this session, at least the soloists?

[realiquidation]

Look further back in this talkback and you'd know.

[snydtwin]

Cool Daddy-O!

[kingnabil73]

nice

[inferioralphamale]

Yeah man i love this. Wes is such a cool cat. They all are kinda contempory sound too! thanks for this vid. I want to find a recording of it.

[DarthVs]

Woaw.... Sure i'm saying things already said, but it's the best Jazz tune i ever heard... What a pity, i did'nt manage to find this tune, except on youtube... I'm trying to pick Wes's solo, but it's quite hard by moments... If someone has written solo, tell me...

[klyde4parliament]

too many horns, but nice arrangement despite that

[PyePye7]

klyde4parliament -...just a little bit loud in the mix, that's all. Sound engineer probably amateur horn player!

[klyde4parliament]

ha ha, yeah you're probably right

[0410991]

very good...one of my favorites...

[Pan3405]

back to the days when men were men and women were women!!No soundmixings.. overdubbs..fantastic!!

[Magico599]

Does anyone know what this song is called?

[realiquidation]

Scroll ferther back in this talk back and you'd see the answer/

good dat and ty.

[recuerdo000]

uff, es increíble que haya videos de esta gente... Wes es una leyenda, pareciera que no hay de el sino historias heredadas a sus discípulos... como de Cristo a sus apóstoles. Verlo en vida tocando con su pulgar y su técnica tan rudimentaria haciendo maravillas es realmente increíble.

Gracias por este video.

[kaymany]

hans koller the best on horns all the way in this video

[dbeckster]

Anybody know who the pianist is?

[miskininkas]

martial solal

[elementcult]

This is quite amazing

[niueroo]

magical

[fastfingers49]

I guess black people arent so bad...

[realiquidation]

clever thow unrelevant at all..

[TomasMLopez]

Caliente'

[SatanicWarmaster6668]

timeless! absolutely timeless!!!!

[fujifour]

I still cannot find this anywhere else on the internet apart from a mention of the session on the Verve website, is there actually a studio recording of this song somewhere, its gorgeous. Solal's piano solo is one of the best i have ever heard.

[Elrojotoro]

1965, funny to think that the entire world has gone completely to sh:t in the intervening years, sigh, ah well, thank god for camera's, we can look back and remember it when it was good, right, and tight.

[mithomaniac12]

100 x WOW

[Modes9]

Nobody has commented about the tight ensemble work is or how killer the arranging is. Talk about a lost art...

[buddhasphere2]

Thanks for the posting.

[SteveMontgomery01]

the older the wes the more he cooks. and this is cookin' chef style, man ....thanx for this enlightment. MORE PLEASE.

[robertoalaluf]

Oh yeah .. is like seeing human beings, sometime ago. Incredible difference with that thing called 'music' of today.

The feeling of JAM in this session (I think its a word originally from the Arabs, wich means 'UNION') is .. beautiful.

The name of the tune as I read in other commentary is 'Leopard walk'

(Excuse for my english)

[realiquidation]

No no no apppologise is needed.

TY for bringing the name up again

[BrunoBaudewyns]

exellent video!!

What's the name of the tune?

I check "why try mr" on google, nothing...

Does anyone knows the album of this session?

Thanks =)

[ochee08]

does anyone know who the drummer is? It looks like buddy rich maybe? Idk.

[MarkR1957]

Don't know who he is, but it's not Buddy ~

[GBagley]

The drummer is Ronnie Stephenson

[IndrasGhost]

Ain't nothing wrong with any of this. Yes sir, good stuff

[AmritsarAnarchist]

Wow! It's so wondrous to listen to human beings playing music in an age marked by machines.

[realiquidation]

lol true !

[callasexperience]

wow these blues kicks! to play this is a gift

[Martudutzi]

this is the coolest of cool :-)

[rch456789]

wow.. this is what you call a real music

[btinsley1]

no (deliberate) image here.....just music for its' own sake....the way those many decades ago so intended...MAGNIFICENT !

[fujifour]

This is most beautiful Jazz peice i have ever heard, its so nice, the last 2 minutes and the refrain at the end is absolutly superb, thank you for posting :)

[TWandDM]

yeah what is the name of this. It's amazing

[realiquidation]

If you go back in this talkback history you'd find it mentioned.

[realiquidation]

I think, it´s "The Leopard Walk"

[eyehatepop]

Anybody know the name of this tune?

[GBagley]

It's called "Last of the Wine"

[realiquidation]

Why ty Mr.

[taildragger51]

realiquidation; A million "thank you's" for this priceless gem of a film.  For me, it's one of the finest films on youtube.

[middlebit]

Man, Solal kicks such an unbelievable amount of ass on this tune...

[realiquidation]

They all R

[Jon00Wesley00Harding]

Whoever's got the high register in this arrangement is not tight with the other horns...

[GuerillaCommentator]

horn players think they run the fuckin' show....Wes gonna show them!!!

[FrederickShopping]

make a jazz noise here:..yeah MAN!...go man GO!!...Yah!..solid gone daddyo...

[Jon00Wesley00Harding]

Bahaha +1

[taildragger51]

FrederickShopping: Infact the whole band is having a job to keep up with Wes! Wes was DYNAMITE! He WAS "cool"..the ultimate performer who made it all look so effortless.( look at him smile!) Not a smug smile but one of utter satisfaction and love for the music. People like Wes Montgomery appear only once in a lifetime..after which we have a succession of copyists.

[gmtdiato]

Totally agree with your last paragraph,I had the privilege of seeing Wes @ Ronnie's [Gerrard St.] c.1965.

[taildragger51]

gmtdiato; Amazing! What memories!! Wasn't he great? There's a CD available of one of his sessions there. Was it Frith St. rather than Gerrard St.?

[WethamanUtube]

wow...

[symodiezel]

Music now has been simplified, the focus is now on image, good looks, fashion, im talking main stream here, sure there are plenty of great musicians but they dont share the spot light with the "posers" Hip Hop "R&B", Dance, and Pop flood the market for the teenagers who are all about image these days, too much so, music today is very boring, you listen to the "actual music" i find it boring and basic, all i see on TV is a bunch of girls dancing around or guys showing off their cars and big house

[richardwiebe]

this is actually music for it's own sake - this is not music for selling records to the children of failed parents who are trying to buy their children's love

[taildragger51]

symodiezel; I agree with you 300%! I grew up in the 50s/ 60s. Guys like these musicians were in it for the music..since the late 70s talent has been replaced with commercialism and easy money. Todays media centres on how to make "easy money' through over produced garbage that passes as 'music'.(todays idea of R'n'B makes me laugh!) The artists are shallow and so are most of the people who buy the crap. This is the age of "reality TV" which is anything but REAL.

[vampyros1]

Ya! I think this guy is problee even better then the guy in Limp Bizkit!

[razberyjamdeltaV]

wes has it spot on, as well as the rest of this band.

THIS is how music should sound (not that there's not also room for blues and classic rock in the world as well, but this modern music we've had for the past few decades has got to go!)

[flatsix04]

This should be the session: WES MONTGOMERY ALL STARS Wes Montgomery(g) Hans Koller(as) Johnny Griffin, Ronnie Scotts(ts) Ronnie Ross(bars) Martial Solal(p) Michl Gaudry(b) Ronnie Stephenson(dr) NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) Studio 10, Hamburg, W.Germany; Apr.30,1965 BlueGrass 4:49 Last Of The Wine 7:41 The Leopard Walk 6:56 West Coast Blues 4:10 I think, it´s "The Leopard Walk" Three of the best european sax-players + Johnny Griffin. flatsix04

[realiquidation]

Ty flatsisx.

That was wonderfull

[mondodave]

what tune is this? I'm not familiar with it...

[Manitor]

This is incredible.

[realiquidation]

True. An amazing recording in general

[DAYTONACOUPE65]

WES TEARS IT UP

[realiquidation]

Aha :))