Nicas dream - Wes Montgomery 1965

Nicas dream - Wes Montgomery 1965
A nice jazz standerd where the 4/4 jazz is exchanged with latin rhythms was written by master jazz pianist Horace Silver.
Wes Montgomery is accompanied by a group of young Dutch musicians, probably all still in their early twenties. Although unknown in the larger part of the world these are Pim Jacobs piano, his younger brother Ruud on bass and drummer Han Bennink who can compete with the best in the larger part of that world.

"Wes" Montgomery1923 - 1968) Montgomery is often considered the greatest of modern Jazz guitarists.Montgomery toured with Lionel Hampton early in his career, however the combined stress of touring and being away from family brought him back home to Indianaopolis. To support his family of eight, Montgomery worked in a factory from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm, then performed in local clubs from 9:00 pm to 2:00 am.
Instead of using a guitar pick, Montgomery plucked the strings with the fleshy part of his thumb, using downstrokes for single notes and a combination of upstrokes and downstrokes for chords and octaves. This technique enabled him to get a mellow, expressive tone from his guitar. Wes had a corn on his thumb, which gave his sound that point. He would get one sound for the soft parts, and then that point by using the corn. That's why no one will ever match Wes. And his thumb was double-jointed. He could bend it all the way back to touch his wrist, which he would do just to shock people."
He didn't have a very long to live to enjoy his commercial success, he died of a heart attack at age 45 in 1968

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[DajaWaja]

i thought at the beginning he said ''lets try some n*ggas dream'' then i read the title of the video

[jbowden66]

A lot a guys think they've surpassed Wes after trying to emulate him for years. I won't mention names but, I will say no one sounds and plays liek Wes did.

[halloranedward]

quite awesome, never heard of this before, I have always been a fan of the weird time thing,(brubeck, zappa, etc) one of my new favorites.

[toddallenhooper]

Sidebar-Can you imagine sitting down with the band, in a studio, and lighting up a smoke today? They'd call the Police and have you hauled out in chains...

[paulyrulo1]

@jbowden66 Whomever 'they' are....they are quite deceived by their own egos....No one surpasses Wes for his creativity and style...I dont care if 'They' think they are more technical or whatever...he was and will always be the best.....sheer joy to hear!

[viniguitarjazz]

FANTASTIC

[Eurobubble70]

is he using roundwounds here?otherwise it sounds very bright for a flatwounds+thumb combo.

[JECKOfficial]

I know now that God exist

[taketimeout2]

@12245488

Lol,Lol,Lol!

That was all I had to do.

Didnt think of that.

It would have been too obvious(the excuse of the dumb, like myself)!

[taketimeout2]

@1dermamic

Yeah, sorry about that. I didnt know he was doing a gig at the time.

I was ringing him to ask if he wanted to fill in for Ringo Starr during the Tour of Holland.

Needed a quick answer.

Wont happen again.

[12245488]

@taketimeout2 google this: dwdd han bennink, you'll get a vid of him in 2009

[GigglingGirI]

"niggas dream" wtf?