Wes Montgomery

Another great Montgomery crossover album that tackles standards, originals, and orchestrated hits of the '60s. Wes is in great form, the session players are first rate (Ron Carter and Herbie Hancock among others) and the album cover featuring a close up of an ashtray is justly famous.

Wes Montgomery, long a noted jazz guitarist, recently recorded a song that became quite
popular on AM radio "Top 40" stations. The song -- "Windy" -- is on the album, A Day In The
Life, and it is actually one of the least interesting of the ten songs on the album. It probably
was selected to be a single only by virtue of the fact that it is just two minutes and twenty
seconds long. It is one of the few songs on the album which is not excellently ar... More >