For jazz guitarists, Charlie, Django, Freddie, and Wes are where you start. Of course, there are many more: Pat Martino, John M., John S., Mike S., Joe P., Herb E., Emily R., Larry C., Grant G., George, Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, Ed Bickert, Sonny G., and on. I've left out so many.
@namtil What do you mean by where we start? Do you mean that the first 4, although great artists, have songs that are easier to learn, or do you mean that the first 4 are a way to start listening to jazz, because their songs are not as complex (not a bad thing!) or do you mean something else?
@slythe109 I appreciate your question, thanks. Jim Hall (I believe) stated that if you traced the playing of jazz guitar back back to its essence you'd end up with Freddie Green. He used the metaphor of trimming a tree back to its main trunk. That's what I'm talking about. There are so many great players - but the four I mention first may be the most influential on jazz guitar overall. A few more players I left out: T. Farlow, K. Burrell, L. Breau, B. Kessel, G. van Eps, and Eddie Lang.
42 got blown away by a big gust of wind.this is a classic.not only i got the''a day in the life'' on album that has ''windy, but got it on c.d. as well.
@rayjr62 that doesnt sound accurate don sebesky said he wrote a band arrangement for wes to play with but wes didnt feel comfortable with it so they let wes play what he wanted at his own pace and wrote the arrangements around him after the fact
My friend's friend wrote this soog (her name is Ruth Ann Friedman) - when Wes did this she suddenly started getting royalty checks out of nowhere. Imagine going to your mailbox and finding a check for $80K for something you wrote years before - must be nice.
I really don't understand why the magazine Rolling Stone called Hendrix the greatest guitarist Here he is the greatest guitarist Wes Montgomery. Every time I hear Hendrix I have the impression he is playing, smoking a pot and trying to sing in the same time.
@trumpetchump herb was a weak trumpet player he had to keep stopping the tape according to hugh masekella and he conned phil ochs out of giving him the advance he promised
Yes, Wes is without a doubt the best for his style. We lost him way before his time.
Re Herb: I was lucky enough to be present back in the early 80's numerous times (while at USC) and have seen Herb warm up, perform estudes, exercises, Classics, Jazz and freestyle. He was on campus all of the time for numerous things. If you think Herb is a weak horn, you leave me speechless. Not worth responding to that.
@trumpetchump There are some musicians probably a lot of them that can play straight through with out breaking a take a studio musician never makes the same mistake once
hello guitar fans, who want to know the work of tb Mazin Silva, Brazilian guitarist, feel free to listen to Brazilian guitar,,,, Mazin SILVA (search youtube)
i am a 12 year old black guitarist and my name is westly ellington hense the name of two jazz legends wes montgomry and duke ellington i really want to learn this song if u do now how to play please make video or post the tabs on my channel like this so people who now how to play tell me.
@MrWest411 Being a musician in college, I should tell you that you need to learn it yourself. It's much better. it builds your ear. and transcribe( write it down on staff paper)
it's a mistake to learn anything by tabs. do it be ear and notation. it will save a lot of effort for your future aspirations
@MrWest411: Hey, buddy. There is a songbook out there called "The Jazz Guitar Bible" by Hal Leonard Publishing. In it are the tabs to a song by Wes's hero Charlie Christian. The song is called "Solo Flight". It's the song that made Wes want to become a guitarist. You can order the book online or from your local music store. It's on youtube if you want to hear it. In order to understand Wes a little better, you need to listen to Charlie as well. Any questions feel free to ask.
yea this is some pretty shitty shit.. maybe even the beginning of smooth jazz? too bad great musiscians like wes and Benson get forced into playing the mainstream crap
@athensathens This just struck me as the upper class saying "dance monkey!" That's all. These people were too used to the velvet glove to understand the oppression and hardship that gave birth to blues, and thus jazz music.
In June 1968 my girlfriend (Kathy) and I saw Wes Montgomery in concert at the old Melodyland (a venue "in the round") in Anaheim, California. Exactly 2 weeks later, to the day, Wes died of a heart attack. Such a great gutiarist, lost much too soon.
@SimpsonSound - Thank you,sir, for that. I tried to find my original post to make sure I was responding with some sense. Couldn't find it. So, I think "thanks" is safe.
The arrangement is bland, but listen to Wes from 1.12-1.42, then say this is all commercial crap. He was a smooth player sliding between jazz chords and all the little embellishments around a melody note. This is not Wes at his best, but you can cut through the bland and see the class in the lead break.
this video actually makes me sad...... 2:03 look at that... bland tasteless crowd getting bland tasteless music. Wes was not about this. Wes had it from the soul and from the heart, its a damn shame what people in charge can make you do. I love you Wes, and your legacy lives on... not "the hollywood place''....???
you people really kill me literaley and mine cant u mf's just give props were it is do
yall always try to sweep shit that you did under cover like it has changed it hasent it is just more undercover sort of like a cake made of shit but cover in a wedding cake iceing looks good on the outside but inside its still looks and taste like crap!!!! and please dont give me that shit about a black pres. fucking puppet on string, Good going though you have burried jazz and have did the same to rap now!!!
He's miming the whole thing. You can tell in the end that the guitar isn't plugged into anything. Everyone knew that he was so talented, that no one gave a shit.
@jooksinged : The guitar is plugged in to his amp that's sitting to his left. You can see the cable, too. Also, if you know his album version of this song (it's on his "A Day In The Life"Album) you'd know that he plays it, as well as his solo, completely different. :-)
@jmeintn: For sure. He's playing with a backing track. Arranged and conducted by the great, Don Sebesky. Recorded by Rudy VanGelder. Herbie Hancock is on piano, Ron Carter is on Bass, Ray Barretto is on percussion and Grady Tate is on Drums. I grew up with this album. It played on our dads reel to reel several times a week. :-)
@spacepatrolman : You're right. I have many and even a few that I have, I also have the LP's. The 1/4" sounds so much better and is crystal clear. Rudy VanGelder really had the ear for that time.
@soupismylover13: No, Wes played he Gibson L5 CES, which were custom made for him by Gibson at this point in his career. Earlier in his career, back in the '50s in Indianapolis, he did play 175s.
@djakk: The guitar is plugged in to his amp that's sitting to his left. You can see the cable, too. Also, if you know his album version of this song (it's on his "A Day In The Life"Album) you'd know that he plays it, as well as his solo, completely different. :-)
Wow!!! One of my all-time fave guitar players......in color! Sure it's from his A&M period.....but hey, it's Wes! I'll get what I can take when it comes to this legend who passed away too soon.
@soccercude ever heard of Charlie Christian, Grant Green or Barney Kessel? i love Wes but come on, it's n ot like he invented jazz guitar (or guitar itself for that matter)
@soccercude: Yes, and, unfortunately, as an executive with A&M Records Herb Albert, seen here introducing him, is one of the main people who was involved in pushing Wes away from the sort of wonderful Jazz records he made with Riverside and towards recording cutesy pop, like "Wendy." What a wast of his talents!
@aarfeld you mean windy... and who CARES if its poppy... its still awesome!!! Look at the SHiTE today.. rap. hip hop, shite pure shhite... I am a HEAVY METAL Musician (guitarist) and i fucking LOVE this man. Whther its the riverside recordings with an organ trio or the a+m pop stuff it doesnt matter.. its ALL AWESOME AND AWE INSPIRING!
@harveydents: Well, I don't agree and neither do most of his fans and critics. True, a great talent like Wes could make lemonade out of even a lemon like this, and I understand the motivation of these side trips for the money (he had seven kids to feed), but it pales beside his great body of work.
@SuperCarver2011: In an interview, Orin Keepnews, Wes's producer at Riverside, says that Wes wasn't proud of those Jazz-Pop records that he was making, A&M pushed him in that direction due to the collapse in the sale of Jazz records in the later years of the '60s, Wes didn't fight it because all Jazz musicians were perplexed and fearful by the public's sudden loss of interest in Jazz, he was glad for the great increase in his income, but he looked forward to making straight Jazz records again.
Seems that you really don't know much about the history of Jazz. "Cutesy pop"? Most of your "so called" Jazz standards are pop songs. Just take a look (and listen) to all of those old MGM classic movies. You'll notice that most of those songs were at one time or another recorded by jazz artist of the 30's until present. I can understand if you don't like something then you just don't like it. However, it's wrong to call someone a waste of talent because of what they like.
@soccercude best jazz guitarist! (jimi hendrix, kirk hammett, etc!!) HeMs very good and better than me that's for sure, but don't ask him to play raining blood or hammer smashed face while headbanging!!! Ask to chuck norris and he will play this while sleeping
what a stupid cunt you sound like....... segregation is the fault of NO ONE alive today-- so get over your white guilt........... should Greeks feel bad today that Alexander the Great killed hundreds of thousands in his conquests 2400 years ago???? BE REAL MAN!
@soccercude Amen to that! This piece is embarrassingly twee but he had to put food on the table and clothes on the backs of his family so we can't blame him for this bunch of crap - largely due to the moronic over-the-top band behind him. Wes' face at 1.55 says it all - it's like asking Michelangelo to draw funnies for a kid's comic.
@soccercude Amen to that! This piece is embarrassingly twee but he had to put food on the table and clothes on the backs of his family so we can't blame him for this bunch of crap - largely due to the moronic over-the-top band behind him. Wes' face at 1.55 says it all - it's like asking Michelangelo to draw funnies for a kid's comic.
@soccercude Amen to that! This piece is embarrassingly twee but he had to put food on the table and clothes on the backs of his family so we can't blame him for this bunch of crap - largely due to the moronic over-the-top band behind him. Wes' face at 1.55 says it all - it's like asking Michelangelo to draw funnies for a kid's comic.
I surely treasure this piece I have the original Album and what can I say life is good , he just left too soon, what a talent from Indianapolis Indiana.
This video really takes me back to my childhood. It reminds me of my dad (R.I.P.). This was one of his favorite albums. He'd play it on his reel to reel when he got home from work and my sister and I would dance around. :-) Thanks for this post. Wes is the best. So sad that he died a few months after this show was recorded. R.I.P. Mr. Wes Montgomery.
@entredosaguas16: You've got to learn the jazz vocabulary by listening to a lot of it. Really get it in your ear and then play everyday. Hang around the people that play it well and ask questions. Play with people that play it. Practice, practice and practice.
Lemme tell you...this is the prettified Wes. It's full of cute phrases, and very little badass jazz stuff. Poke around here on youtube and listen to Wes with just his quartet and not that 60's-70's orchestration behind him. Then you'll see some astonishing playing.
@fctchk: I supported the Vietnam war, hated segregation, and cowardly U.S. draft dodgers running to my country, but love Wes Montgomery - the MAN with the golden thumb.
I got the distinct impression watching this that Wes was going through the motions on this - still playing brilliantly but not really doing what he wanted to do. He has a look on his face of some discomfort in this studio situation. I've since read that the A&M executives (of which Herb Alpert was one) forced Wes to play many covers such as this and whilst he liked the money, its was far from what he would have preferred to have been doing.....Sadly missed....
I sit and comments and wonder why it is never about the music Lets face it the times were f up but they are gone I have friends who swear they know music and they dont know shit just enjoy I love youtube because all this lost stuff is here I was young and dum in 67 so I am just glad to be able to return to past where it started Cant we all just get along
music is wonderful before video existed because then it was heard not seen and people wouldn't make stupid racist comments about a great rendition of a wonderful song
Did Wes die in 1969?
RonSafreed 3 days ago
Wendy! not "windy"
thebigandroid 1 week ago
@thebigandroid Wrong, it's "Windy" by the Association.
theScytheofGod 3 days ago
@theScytheofGod mondegreen! :-p
thebigandroid 2 days ago
enough with the fuckin otaves
!!!!! one trick pony
outtacastatv 1 week ago
For jazz guitarists, Charlie, Django, Freddie, and Wes are where you start. Of course, there are many more: Pat Martino, John M., John S., Mike S., Joe P., Herb E., Emily R., Larry C., Grant G., George, Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, Ed Bickert, Sonny G., and on. I've left out so many.
namtil 2 weeks ago
@namtil What do you mean by where we start? Do you mean that the first 4, although great artists, have songs that are easier to learn, or do you mean that the first 4 are a way to start listening to jazz, because their songs are not as complex (not a bad thing!) or do you mean something else?
slythe109 1 day ago
@slythe109 I appreciate your question, thanks. Jim Hall (I believe) stated that if you traced the playing of jazz guitar back back to its essence you'd end up with Freddie Green. He used the metaphor of trimming a tree back to its main trunk. That's what I'm talking about. There are so many great players - but the four I mention first may be the most influential on jazz guitar overall. A few more players I left out: T. Farlow, K. Burrell, L. Breau, B. Kessel, G. van Eps, and Eddie Lang.
namtil 1 day ago
@namtil Thank you for the information!
slythe109 1 day ago
@slythe109 Anytime.
namtil 23 hours ago
Anybody know what key hes playin in?
9timesnine 2 weeks ago
@9timesnine F major.
namtil 2 weeks ago
@namtil Right on man. Thanks. -Cody Lee
9timesnine 2 weeks ago
@9timesnine Anytime.
namtil 2 weeks ago
42 got blown away by a big gust of wind.this is a classic.not only i got the''a day in the life'' on album that has ''windy, but got it on c.d. as well.
wfarrar69 1 month ago
this is class. Thanx for this jewel.
loombaron 1 month ago
Thumb tone direct from God, but go to
watch?v=MOm17yw__6U&feature=related to see and hear the real Wes.
NobleJoyous 1 month ago
商業ﾍﾞｰｽにのせられたｳｪｽ･ﾓｺﾞﾒﾘｰだったが､どれもこれも好きだったﾖ!～～ﾅｲｽ･ｶﾊﾞｰ!ｱｿｼｴｲｼｮﾝ"WINDY" #jazzm
blackandtanful 1 month ago
I hate this pop approach...
Rickriquinho 1 month ago
@rayjr62 that doesnt sound accurate don sebesky said he wrote a band arrangement for wes to play with but wes didnt feel comfortable with it so they let wes play what he wanted at his own pace and wrote the arrangements around him after the fact
spacepatrolman 1 month ago
please elevator music...cmon!!!!!!
STORYTASTIC 1 month ago
My friend's friend wrote this soog (her name is Ruth Ann Friedman) - when Wes did this she suddenly started getting royalty checks out of nowhere. Imagine going to your mailbox and finding a check for $80K for something you wrote years before - must be nice.
mvp019 1 month ago
T-1000 presented wes montgomery
GabrielDhalaman 1 month ago
I really don't understand why the magazine Rolling Stone called Hendrix the greatest guitarist Here he is the greatest guitarist Wes Montgomery. Every time I hear Hendrix I have the impression he is playing, smoking a pot and trying to sing in the same time.
JerusalemRocks 2 months ago
@JerusalemRocks your right but they are only catagorising rock guitarists not jazz they should have put johnny winter higher up if not number 1
spacepatrolman 1 month ago
Hey Herb, you are also one of the greatest!
trumpetchump 2 months ago
@trumpetchump herb was a weak trumpet player he had to keep stopping the tape according to hugh masekella and he conned phil ochs out of giving him the advance he promised
spacepatrolman 1 month ago
@spacepatrolman
Yes, Wes is without a doubt the best for his style. We lost him way before his time.
Re Herb: I was lucky enough to be present back in the early 80's numerous times (while at USC) and have seen Herb warm up, perform estudes, exercises, Classics, Jazz and freestyle. He was on campus all of the time for numerous things. If you think Herb is a weak horn, you leave me speechless. Not worth responding to that.
trumpetchump 1 month ago
@trumpetchump herb albert records are pleasent sounding hits but he cant improvise like art farmer or maynard ferguson
spacepatrolman 1 month ago
@spacepatrolman
Continued.
Repeats are done by everyone, doesnt matter who your are.
And for the biz end of things, I am not a business entertainment attorney. Thank god.
trumpetchump 1 month ago
@trumpetchump There are some musicians probably a lot of them that can play straight through with out breaking a take a studio musician never makes the same mistake once
spacepatrolman 1 month ago
The Pride of INDIANAPOLIS....!
Crackers2549 2 months ago
dec 12 1967,,,, otis redding was gone 2 days before this show
TheSoulman44 2 months ago
Awesome, yet depressing.
LandonInFlorida 2 months ago
GRANDE WES MONTGOMERY
scassciatos 2 months ago
Es como poner a Einstein a esquilar ovejas.
pacocan 2 months ago
this video just makes me sad
mtobrien89 2 months ago
Every one who shreds takes from this style
CREWDOG289 3 months ago
I think George Benson got his style from Wes. Have been listening to him since the fifties.
enaj78 3 months ago
That's Herb Alpert announcing Wes. Herb was the "A" of A&M Records, for which Wes recorded.
Interesting thing about Wes' style is that he developed the pick-less style to avoid disturbing his wife's sleep.
PacRimJim 3 months ago
i dont think that guitar was plugged in
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hello guitar fans, who want to know the work of tb Mazin Silva, Brazilian guitarist, feel free to listen to Brazilian guitar,,,, Mazin SILVA (search youtube)
jazzbrasil2010 3 months ago
try Wes for real virtuoso guitar playing
wreyoG 3 months ago
strange way to play but marvellous
topassa 3 months ago
Great! Thanks!
ourDC888 3 months ago
Didn't know he was black. That's awesome.
pennilesshippo 3 months ago
@pennilesshippo You're kidding, right?
dwill123 3 months ago
i am a 12 year old black guitarist and my name is westly ellington hense the name of two jazz legends wes montgomry and duke ellington i really want to learn this song if u do now how to play please make video or post the tabs on my channel like this so people who now how to play tell me.
MrWest411 3 months ago
@MrWest411 Being a musician in college, I should tell you that you need to learn it yourself. It's much better. it builds your ear. and transcribe( write it down on staff paper)
it's a mistake to learn anything by tabs. do it be ear and notation. it will save a lot of effort for your future aspirations
mageXsessho 3 months ago 6
@mageXsessho Thank you for this great advice! Cheers!
LBurris597 1 week ago
@mageXsessho Right on! That is how to become a better musician.
Mick343777 4 days ago
@mageXsessho Mostly, I think you are correct but not everyone has a great ear. I know I don't. I couldn't transcript Joe Pass solos for example.
Drewriders 1 day ago
@MrWest411: Hey, buddy. There is a songbook out there called "The Jazz Guitar Bible" by Hal Leonard Publishing. In it are the tabs to a song by Wes's hero Charlie Christian. The song is called "Solo Flight". It's the song that made Wes want to become a guitarist. You can order the book online or from your local music store. It's on youtube if you want to hear it. In order to understand Wes a little better, you need to listen to Charlie as well. Any questions feel free to ask.
tomthefunky 2 months ago
@tomthefunky Thank you
MrWest411 2 months ago
@tomthefunky Hal leonard has a lot of books of transcribed solos that are good 2 stan getz books a david sandborn book...
spacepatrolman 1 month ago
Amazing, only with the Thumb he plays...
Thumbs up for that Wes... I love Bumpin' BTW.
HolyMarmot 4 months ago
He makes this guitar sound great in any style of music.
mahrette 4 months ago
whoa, tough crowd.
mrnessss 4 months ago
yea this is some pretty shitty shit.. maybe even the beginning of smooth jazz? too bad great musiscians like wes and Benson get forced into playing the mainstream crap
xXironraiderXx 4 months ago
not a single black person in the audience
Pierce188 4 months ago 30
@Pierce188 what possible point could you have?
athensathens 1 month ago
@athensathens This just struck me as the upper class saying "dance monkey!" That's all. These people were too used to the velvet glove to understand the oppression and hardship that gave birth to blues, and thus jazz music.
Pierce188 1 month ago
@Pierce188 yeah i know what you mean.
shimeonmorpheus 3 weeks ago
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joaobrum94 1 month ago
@Pierce188 well, nowadays jazz still doesn't get much black fans either...
rodcrippler 2 weeks ago
@Pierce188 I agree!
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there is no such thing as best
TheThepurplebird 4 months ago
Dude, that suit is hot as fuck.
agentpissant42 4 months ago
In June 1968 my girlfriend (Kathy) and I saw Wes Montgomery in concert at the old Melodyland (a venue "in the round") in Anaheim, California. Exactly 2 weeks later, to the day, Wes died of a heart attack. Such a great gutiarist, lost much too soon.
MrRonnieG 4 months ago 2
One of my favorite covers by Mr. Montgomery. It's such a feel a good song, even without the lyrics. Did Wes play a Les Paul?
roryrook 4 months ago
@roryrook: He played a custom made Gibson L5 through a Standel 1965 Super Custom XV amp.
SimpsonSound 1 month ago
@SimpsonSound - Thank you,sir, for that. I tried to find my original post to make sure I was responding with some sense. Couldn't find it. So, I think "thanks" is safe.
roryrook 1 month ago
... his right hand style is just unique!
bmdantas2011 5 months ago
This is called commercial success. . . . he had to feed his family.
Too bad that the general public did not get to really hear what he can do, not that they would have understood his greatness.
Boldstrummer 5 months ago 27
@Boldstrummer
How very condescending of you.
hcrun 4 months ago
@Boldstrummer
This is how I got to learn of him so please dont diss it.
Spread the word, Wes IS the bird........
twixttime 1 month ago
the clothes, the music ... that's not possible.
one of the greatest guitarist, but why did he accept that ...
boubaoli 5 months ago
age 19? cool
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n64wilbert 5 months ago
Nice playback thou
Aleksi32 5 months ago
herb alpert introducing him
TheIrishlad12 6 months ago
2:08 did he just get out of prison or something
stevenisserlisfan 6 months ago
Quelle grande classe!!! le thème, l'interpretation; tout y est!! dommage je ne trouve pas la version chantée par Astrud Gilberto???????????????
STEN3326 6 months ago
Herb Alpert, mega-star at the time, introducing Wes on a network TV show... How cool is that?
tuxguys 6 months ago
@ksmithdc
God bless you for saying that, on at least two levels.
tuxguys 6 months ago
They all sneaky learn Wes Style, why?
Wes is the only World guitar Professor Ever!
A whole lot of rockguitarists copy his double octave style also nowadays
Also worked very hard, I have al lot of respect how he had to support his family
bij working by day in the factory and at evening doing his Gigs
stellaantoine2 6 months ago
at 2.05 min Wes changed 2 notes low/and high..it 's Fabulous...!!!!
There you are Wes is better than the composer!!!
stellaantoine2 6 months ago
A tip of the hat to Wes Montgomery, very sensitive melodic gifts, smooth and soulful.
kitthevideoman 6 months ago
Poor wes, hes not even plugged in. damn phony hollywood shite
Miker393 6 months ago
@Miker393 2:30 you can see the cable...
burtonboyx 5 months ago
That's Herb Alpert introducing, isn't it?
CleverDick777 6 months ago
@CleverDick777 Sure is.
1Geronimodeleon 6 months ago
i like the way he picks strings.....reallly warm sound
lakajd 7 months ago
it`s amazing how he play the guitar with only one finger on the right hand !
sajsomange 7 months ago
Wes est un ange envoyé par Dieu pour donner du bonheur aux hommes.
donegidiodabruzzo 7 months ago
Wes is 'n' a class by himself~
Levicobx 7 months ago
2:00 the only black guy in the room is Wes. Fucking 60's, man x)
bnlisbest 7 months ago
He looks like muddy waters junior
Frreezzz 7 months ago
What's the Gibson that Wes plays in this vid? It's from the ES series?
LovemitE4DiscoMusic 7 months ago
@LovemitE4DiscoMusic I think it's an L5
6gpower 7 months ago
The arrangement is bland, but listen to Wes from 1.12-1.42, then say this is all commercial crap. He was a smooth player sliding between jazz chords and all the little embellishments around a melody note. This is not Wes at his best, but you can cut through the bland and see the class in the lead break.
wowjef 7 months ago
this video actually makes me sad...... 2:03 look at that... bland tasteless crowd getting bland tasteless music. Wes was not about this. Wes had it from the soul and from the heart, its a damn shame what people in charge can make you do. I love you Wes, and your legacy lives on... not "the hollywood place''....???
koolanddagang12 7 months ago
@mr. barney.......let's hear ur version
hippyblood4 7 months ago
Great guitarist, but this music is horrible.
MrBarney2107 7 months ago
you people really kill me literaley and mine cant u mf's just give props were it is do
yall always try to sweep shit that you did under cover like it has changed it hasent it is just more undercover sort of like a cake made of shit but cover in a wedding cake iceing looks good on the outside but inside its still looks and taste like crap!!!! and please dont give me that shit about a black pres. fucking puppet on string, Good going though you have burried jazz and have did the same to rap now!!!
badintensions1 7 months ago
Patrick Star led me here...Free Form Jazz!!
Crashlinevas 8 months ago
one of jimi's inspiration
ArpeggioBear 8 months ago
Awesome.TY for posting
paulostroff99 8 months ago
Sounds pretty good for not being plugged into any amp
LiamCapt 8 months ago
Effortless
mrrogue72 8 months ago
Paul Rudd had his own show in 1967?
dotsunmoon 8 months ago
Who knew Paul Rudd had his own show back in 1967?!?!?!?
dotsunmoon 8 months ago
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Oh, how nice.
ArkRed1 9 months ago
And all this by only using his thumb, very impressive indeed!
kassemir 9 months ago
Nice suit !
Rafcheeeze 9 months ago
He's miming the whole thing. You can tell in the end that the guitar isn't plugged into anything. Everyone knew that he was so talented, that no one gave a shit.
jooksinged 9 months ago
@jooksinged : The guitar is plugged in to his amp that's sitting to his left. You can see the cable, too. Also, if you know his album version of this song (it's on his "A Day In The Life"Album) you'd know that he plays it, as well as his solo, completely different. :-)
SimpsonSound 9 months ago
@SimpsonSound
I don't know his album version so well. You think he's playing along to a backing track?
jmeintn 9 months ago
@jmeintn: For sure. He's playing with a backing track. Arranged and conducted by the great, Don Sebesky. Recorded by Rudy VanGelder. Herbie Hancock is on piano, Ron Carter is on Bass, Ray Barretto is on percussion and Grady Tate is on Drums. I grew up with this album. It played on our dads reel to reel several times a week. :-)
SimpsonSound 9 months ago
@SimpsonSound those pre recorded tapes have great sound you can hear things you cant hear on the record
spacepatrolman 1 month ago
@spacepatrolman : You're right. I have many and even a few that I have, I also have the LP's. The 1/4" sounds so much better and is crystal clear. Rudy VanGelder really had the ear for that time.
SimpsonSound 1 month ago
@jmeintn: Positive.
SimpsonSound 1 month ago
29 people have to play with a pick.
SawyerTraynham 9 months ago
is that the Gibson es -175?
soupismylover13 9 months ago
@soupismylover13: No, Wes played he Gibson L5 CES, which were custom made for him by Gibson at this point in his career. Earlier in his career, back in the '50s in Indianapolis, he did play 175s.
aarfeld 9 months ago
@aarfeld thanks :D
soupismylover13 9 months ago
@soupismylover13 Although Gibson started to make the Wes Montgomery signature L5CES at some point,
if you look at the album cover of BOSS GUITAR...you will see that he also had/played a L5CESN.
Both the ES-175 and L5 are the quintessential choices of the jazz guitarists, although D'Angelico NYC was
a close second. George Benson's style is based on Wes'.
SuperCarver2011 9 months ago
What a Legend, good thing cameras were invented so we can push the play button repeatedly.
EdwardNguyenMusic 9 months ago
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I wonder why he did this.
FreeGuitarLicks 9 months ago
Where is the jack ? tv = playback :P
djakk 9 months ago
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@djakk: The guitar is plugged in to his amp that's sitting to his left. You can see the cable, too. Also, if you know his album version of this song (it's on his "A Day In The Life"Album) you'd know that he plays it, as well as his solo, completely different. :-)
SimpsonSound 9 months ago
The master, enough said !!!!!!
Nupeman1972 10 months ago
about 2:05 , a lot of couples wondering why all of a sudden their waiter's wearing an orange suit, playing guitar and not serving them their dessert
ChornyKlegg 10 months ago
amazing. and what a great smile he had
tdottchickk 10 months ago
that presenter is the most 60's guy I've seen in my life
dmsanct 10 months ago
Wow!!! One of my all-time fave guitar players......in color! Sure it's from his A&M period.....but hey, it's Wes! I'll get what I can take when it comes to this legend who passed away too soon.
records700 10 months ago
best jazz guitarist? more like the best guitarist ever.
soccercude 10 months ago 51
@soccercude ever heard of Charlie Christian, Grant Green or Barney Kessel? i love Wes but come on, it's n ot like he invented jazz guitar (or guitar itself for that matter)
Fjord76 9 months ago 2
@soccercude: Yes, and, unfortunately, as an executive with A&M Records Herb Albert, seen here introducing him, is one of the main people who was involved in pushing Wes away from the sort of wonderful Jazz records he made with Riverside and towards recording cutesy pop, like "Wendy." What a wast of his talents!
aarfeld 9 months ago
@aarfeld you mean windy... and who CARES if its poppy... its still awesome!!! Look at the SHiTE today.. rap. hip hop, shite pure shhite... I am a HEAVY METAL Musician (guitarist) and i fucking LOVE this man. Whther its the riverside recordings with an organ trio or the a+m pop stuff it doesnt matter.. its ALL AWESOME AND AWE INSPIRING!
harveydents 9 months ago
@harveydents: Well, I don't agree and neither do most of his fans and critics. True, a great talent like Wes could make lemonade out of even a lemon like this, and I understand the motivation of these side trips for the money (he had seven kids to feed), but it pales beside his great body of work.
aarfeld 9 months ago
@aarfeld dude....who gives a fuck what critics think...and REAL fans of wes like ALL of his recordings..
harveydents 1 month ago
@harveydents :Well Said!!
SimpsonSound 1 month ago
@aarfeld I fully agree with your statement...but some artists prefer "show me the money", and whether he
was pushed or made a concious decision on his own to go "pop", it still doesn't detract from the fact that
he was (and always will be) one of the greatest jazz guitarists in the world. Gibson still can make you
a custom built Wes Montgomery L5 even today..well over 40 years since his death..and that speaks
volumes for the lasting legacy that he left behind.
SuperCarver2011 9 months ago
@SuperCarver2011: In an interview, Orin Keepnews, Wes's producer at Riverside, says that Wes wasn't proud of those Jazz-Pop records that he was making, A&M pushed him in that direction due to the collapse in the sale of Jazz records in the later years of the '60s, Wes didn't fight it because all Jazz musicians were perplexed and fearful by the public's sudden loss of interest in Jazz, he was glad for the great increase in his income, but he looked forward to making straight Jazz records again.
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SuperCarver2011 9 months ago
@SuperCarver2011 Cont'd. I would loved to be fly on the wall at A&M when the decision was made
to go "pop"..but you know..perhaps that was a good thing. During the period that he was playing
pop tunes "California dreamin', A day in the Life, Tequila..and others..he was played by the radio stations
across NA on a daily basis, and that raised him to the popularity of a superstar..even at the expense
of his jazz roots. ".ya gotta make hay while the sun shines"..and the sun shone on Wes!
SuperCarver2011 9 months ago
@SuperCarver2011 I remember those days back in the late 60s. One of the best jazz albums Wes released was
Boss Guitar, and his lush melodic treatment of Days of Wine and Roses, one that I still try and mimic
on my Epiphone Broadway Elitist to this very day..and still trying to get it right. This piece and some
of his others on that album will remain jazz classics for eternity. One of his very early albums ('59)
with his bros (Montgomery Brothers "Groove Yard) trk 1: Bock to Bock.
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SimpsonSound 1 month ago
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Seems that you really don't know much about the history of Jazz. "Cutesy pop"? Most of your "so called" Jazz standards are pop songs. Just take a look (and listen) to all of those old MGM classic movies. You'll notice that most of those songs were at one time or another recorded by jazz artist of the 30's until present. I can understand if you don't like something then you just don't like it. However, it's wrong to call someone a waste of talent because of what they like.
SimpsonSound 1 month ago
@soccercude understand your sentiment, but that's a distinction that has no place in music... there's many ways of telling a story
JoeWhy1 9 months ago
@soccercude C'mon guy, he's awesome but let's not kid ourselves.
mrrogue72 8 months ago
@soccercude Wes was awesome, but really kinda narrow stylistically. Nobody is the "best guitarist ever", way too many different styles to encompass.
pretorious700 7 months ago
@soccercude best jazz guitarist! (jimi hendrix, kirk hammett, etc!!) HeMs very good and better than me that's for sure, but don't ask him to play raining blood or hammer smashed face while headbanging!!! Ask to chuck norris and he will play this while sleeping
yerduaengag 6 months ago
@soccercude
what a stupid cunt you sound like....... segregation is the fault of NO ONE alive today-- so get over your white guilt........... should Greeks feel bad today that Alexander the Great killed hundreds of thousands in his conquests 2400 years ago???? BE REAL MAN!
HOTROD213 6 months ago
@soccercude I love monty. But take it easy man...
miguelmouta 4 months ago
@soccercude Amen to that! This piece is embarrassingly twee but he had to put food on the table and clothes on the backs of his family so we can't blame him for this bunch of crap - largely due to the moronic over-the-top band behind him. Wes' face at 1.55 says it all - it's like asking Michelangelo to draw funnies for a kid's comic.
zthetha 4 months ago
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@soccercude Amen to that! This piece is embarrassingly twee but he had to put food on the table and clothes on the backs of his family so we can't blame him for this bunch of crap - largely due to the moronic over-the-top band behind him. Wes' face at 1.55 says it all - it's like asking Michelangelo to draw funnies for a kid's comic.
zthetha 4 months ago
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@soccercude Amen to that! This piece is embarrassingly twee but he had to put food on the table and clothes on the backs of his family so we can't blame him for this bunch of crap - largely due to the moronic over-the-top band behind him. Wes' face at 1.55 says it all - it's like asking Michelangelo to draw funnies for a kid's comic.
zthetha 4 months ago
nice suit :P
tortellofication 10 months ago
I surely treasure this piece I have the original Album and what can I say life is good , he just left too soon, what a talent from Indianapolis Indiana.
jo22338601 10 months ago
This video really takes me back to my childhood. It reminds me of my dad (R.I.P.). This was one of his favorite albums. He'd play it on his reel to reel when he got home from work and my sister and I would dance around. :-) Thanks for this post. Wes is the best. So sad that he died a few months after this show was recorded. R.I.P. Mr. Wes Montgomery.
SimpsonSound 10 months ago
can someon tell me how he was able to teach himself??
how do you do that with Jazz.its so complicated
entredosaguas16 10 months ago
@entredosaguas16: You've got to learn the jazz vocabulary by listening to a lot of it. Really get it in your ear and then play everyday. Hang around the people that play it well and ask questions. Play with people that play it. Practice, practice and practice.
SimpsonSound 10 months ago
@SimpsonSound thanks a lot man!
entredosaguas16 10 months ago
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Lemme tell you...this is the prettified Wes. It's full of cute phrases, and very little badass jazz stuff. Poke around here on youtube and listen to Wes with just his quartet and not that 60's-70's orchestration behind him. Then you'll see some astonishing playing.
sclogse1 10 months ago
@entredosaguas16 Here's my take on it. Wes grew up in Indianpolis and at one time at least, had a day
job as a welder to feed his family. Jazz back then was a sideline, but from what I have learned he started
to play with his bros..Buddy on piano/vibes and Monk on bass. Coming from a musical family, he
was probably influenced and encouraged at an early age to take up the guitar and start playing with
his bros as a trio. Jazz is that you don't need formal music training even on guitar.
SuperCarver2011 9 months ago
Gotta love the orange suited man !
LMaekine 10 months ago
28 people are fucked up and doesn't like music. Thumbs up if I'm right, people!
Xiphosss 11 months ago
@fctchk: I supported the Vietnam war, hated segregation, and cowardly U.S. draft dodgers running to my country, but love Wes Montgomery - the MAN with the golden thumb.
Ken, Toronto
dreadnought45 11 months ago
I got the distinct impression watching this that Wes was going through the motions on this - still playing brilliantly but not really doing what he wanted to do. He has a look on his face of some discomfort in this studio situation. I've since read that the A&M executives (of which Herb Alpert was one) forced Wes to play many covers such as this and whilst he liked the money, its was far from what he would have preferred to have been doing.....Sadly missed....
nevwhile 11 months ago
I sit and comments and wonder why it is never about the music Lets face it the times were f up but they are gone I have friends who swear they know music and they dont know shit just enjoy I love youtube because all this lost stuff is here I was young and dum in 67 so I am just glad to be able to return to past where it started Cant we all just get along
bigboi1953 11 months ago 2
28 people don't know it's Windy.
bombtuckles 11 months ago
music is wonderful before video existed because then it was heard not seen and people wouldn't make stupid racist comments about a great rendition of a wonderful song
QueenBeatlesWings 11 months ago
J adore a 2:27
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