So Much Guitar!
by Wes Montgomery
- Type: Album
- Released: October 1961
- Label: Riverside
- Country: United States
- Length: 39:05
- Community rating: 3.83/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Produced by Orrin Keepnews for Riverside Records, this session features Wes Montgomery leading a quintet with pianist Hank Jones and bassist Ron Carter. The album prominently documents Montgomery's virtuosic thumb-picking technique and his adept handling of both aggressive hard bop tempos and unaccompanied chordal balladry.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, technical, improvisation, melodic
Tracklist
- Twisted Blues (5:34)
- Cotton Tail (3:38)
- I Wish I Knew (5:27)
- I'm Just A Lucky So And So (5:53)
- Repetition (3:51)
- Something Like Bags (4:44)
- While We're Young (2:15)
- One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (7:41)
Credits
- Wes Montgomery - primary artist, guitar, written-by
- Ron Carter - bass
- Ray Barretto - congas
- Ken Deardoff - design
- Lex Humphries - drums
- Ray Fowler - engineer
- Donald Silverstein - photography by
- Steve Schapiro - photography by
- Hank Jones - piano
- Orrin Keepnews - producer, liner notes
- Duke Ellington - written-by
- Gordon-Warren - written by
- Harry Warren - written-by
- Mack Gordon - written-by
- David-Ellington - written by
- Mack David - written-by
- Neal Hefti - written-by
- Alec Wilder - written-by
- Mercer-Arlen - written by
- Harold Arlen - written-by
- Johnny Mercer - written-by