I was given 'The Incredible Jazz Guitar' by Wes Montgomery (lp) as a birthday gift in the mid-60s. It started me on a lifetime of appreciation of Wes' musicality. I've dug through discount bins in the decades since, wondering why his albums were there - but glad to have found them. Sad he was gone so soon after, but his music lives through those who dug his groove.
Wes Montgomery was THE guitarist. When i hears him and Hammond B3 great Jimmy Smith on THE DYNAMIC DUO album I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Just superb. Real soul-satisfying. This pianist reminds me a bit of Red Garland
There is something serene and effortless in how he plays and obviously enjoys doing so. So much at ease in what he is doing and Pim Jacobs is also a revelation.
Pete TheMan I'm sure the dislikes are because as great as Wes is... this is still a jazz musician TRYING to play the blues. This isn't even remotely blues at all!
This band's really cooking and Wes is obviously having a great time jamming with 'em. So cool to hear how the whole band, including Wes, are really playing off each other. Wes and Pim take stellar solos !!
Carl Flohe even tho im a guitarist and i do love wes, there are others wich ill put above. Armstrong, davis, ellington, parker and coltrane are already five. Charles Mingus, Buddy Rich, even Charlie Parker are others i find more influential
Wes is to jazz guitar what Charlie Parker was to jazz saxophone. When tenor men back in the day heard 'Bird, some of them threw their axes in the river they were so intimidated and blown away. Bird raised the bar so high they despaired of ever matching what he did. Well, I've never heard of anyone throwing his arch-top guitar in the river over Wes, but he did the same thing as 'Bird did: Raised the bar to such an absurdly high level no one may ever equal what he did.
First time I heard this concert I had to google the guy. An amazing player. And it looks like this concert was totally unrehearsed. All 4 players are truly amazing. What a joy!
Marcelo, that's because it IS unrehearsed. Wes was doing a Europe tour and he'd play with a different group in each city. This rehearsal is for the Holland gig.
Wes' conception of the guitar was unique, but it was also the work of a genius, a man who was able to master one of the most-difficult instruments on which to play jazz - the guitar - and he did it without the benefit of a formal musical education. The jazz cats speak approvingly of guys with "big ears" - those players who can understand music deeply simply by listening to it. Wes had very big ears - the word gets overused, but he was the real deal, an absolute genius.
Wes' right-hand thumb had a corn or callus on the end of it, according to his protege, fellow jazz guitar great George Benson, which enabled him to do both up-and-down strokes, something that most people find very difficult to do when playing with their thumb instead of a pick. He used his left (fretting) hand little finger sparingly, mostly for chords and octaves, preferring to use the first three fingers to play single-note lines, along with a healthy dose of slurs, glisses, hammers-on and pull-offs, ghost notes, etc. Wes' single-note playing was uncommonly horn-like, with that popping articulation - undoubtedly due to his prefer for listening not just to other guitarists, but to horn players and piano players, too. Guitar is a very difficult instrument on which to master jazz, but Wes made it look easy. That's what years upon years of gigs, five nights a week, will do for a performer. Plus his work ethic and innate talent, of course.
Wes Montgomery(1923-1968) O bir taksi şöförüydü.. O bir fabrika işçisiydi.. O kalabalık bir aileye bakan bir emekçiydi.. O bir gün gitara tutuldu.. O gitarı ağzıyla da çalabilen, gitarın mektepsiz ilk virtüözüdür.. O döneminin efsane bir caz gitaristidir.. Ruhu yüce olsun!..
Never knew those two greats lived together. Never got to see Wes but saw Chuck at Blues Alley l976. Just him and Jay Leonhart. They were brilliant but no one was listening. Chuck leaned over to Jay and said he wasn't even going to bother calling out the tunes. After the first set I went to his table and told him "Great set". He invited me to sit down while he ate and he patiently answered my neophyte guitarist questions. He was so gracious he even gave me the name and number of a teacher he recommended and told me to say Chuck had sent me. Great player and a friendly gentleman.
Wes always seemed like he could really enjoy himself playing with ANYBODY any time, any where (not that the trio in this video are just ANYBODY - they're obviously very skillful musicians too). But Wes' good-hearted and warm nature shined through no matter who he played with. He probably would have had just as much fun playing with guys as simplistic as the Sex Pistols just as much as he enjoyed playing with the great Wynton Kelley Trio! As Creed Taylor once remarked, the man had absolutely no pretensions about himself whatsoever!
Your comment reminds me of a funny story about Wes and the guys. I think I read it in Adrian Ingram's biography of Wes... Wes had left the stage for minute or maybe they were coming off a break, but the guys in the band decided to "sand-bag" Wes by playing a really low-down gut-bucket type blues, something like Muddy Waters or Howling Wolf would have played. Anyway, turns out the joke was on them, because Wes wasted no time turning it into another one of his masterpieces.
It was well-deserved, too. I've been fortunate enough to see/hear some of the finest jazz musicians in the world, and the Pim Jacobs Trio more than hold their own to that standard.
@ Andreas Larl - Re: "At the end Wes says to Pim Jacobs "It sounds good" .This is quite a compliment for the Pim Jacobs Trio from one of the greatest in Jazz." Wes was really digging it! You can tell how much he enjoyed playing with Pim and the group. I have loved Wes Montgomery's playing for many years, but what a revelation is the playing of the Pim Jacobs Trio. They're world-class musicians.
Wes' comping was an art all unto itself. The guy was just so hip - every little thing he played was a masterpiece. Most musicians - even elite-level guys - make a mistake (clam) once in a while, but in all of my years listening to Wes, I can't ever recall him making a mistake or hitting a wrong note.
Wes'comps - his accompaniments to other band members - were often masterpieces of invention in their own right. Hip as can be, creative and never overbearing or intrusive. No wonderful other jazz cats just loved playing with the guy. He had that golden ear and just that wonderful, wonderful taste for what to play when.
@@anotherbahamianguitarplayer - The greatest jazz musicians are so talented that they can turn their "clams" - what the cats call goofs - into something musical. And trust me, neither you nor I are at the level of musicianship we can criticize that guy. He was real genius, the genuine article.
@@GeorgiaBoy1961 You are so right... and I thought I was the only one who loves to listen to his comping.. never did he put a foot wrong .. but if you listen carefully, there has been a clam or two.. in his solos, but who cares anyway :) He was a genius, plain and simple..
Wes was one of Indy's own and like Wes, so many greats such as Freddie Hubbard, J.J. Johnson, Slide Hampton to name a few, came from the little known or appreciated Indiana Ave. jazz scene. Too bad all the old clubs they played and learned their craft in are all looooong gone. All that's left is Madame Walkers.
I was born too late - what a glorious time it must have been for jazz fans, not only in Indy, but in Chicago, Philly, NYC, and other places. Thank heavens for recordings!
I know a man - now deceased - who was one of the premier jazz guitar players in Chicago, a first-call guy who really could play just about anything - Frank Dawson was his name. Well, old Frank was motoring along in the mid-1960s, playing some high-profile gigs and making a living as pro musician, when he caught one of Wes's shows live. He said it was a religious experience, practically, one which left you cleansed and feeling awestruck and rejuvenated at the same time.
I think I’ll try some blues 😮 I just transcribed this solo, the notes aren’ the hard part but the guy is a rhythmic genius! To get his Phrases right with his time feel is great workout and shows how it’s so important to have a variety in your rhythm choices.
Wes is having the time of his life playing with these Dutch guys!
Wes was simply awesome, his sound, ageless. A true master.
Wes is loving that his pick up band is smokin!😎😎😎😎
Master player, guitar is his breath!!! Music is his soul!
Just beautiful indeed!!
What kind of person gives this a thumbs down? This is straight fire!
the dyslexic ones :-B
I dont understand it either. The moment I clicked onto the thumbnail I knew I was in for a treat
Wes gives all the thumbs down
Someone with zero taste
Someone with cloth ears.
I was given 'The Incredible Jazz Guitar' by Wes Montgomery (lp) as a birthday gift in the mid-60s. It started me on a lifetime of appreciation of Wes' musicality. I've dug through discount bins in the decades since, wondering why his albums were there - but glad to have found them. Sad he was gone so soon after, but his music lives through those who dug his groove.
I listened to Wes as a teenager and thought his guitar was above all else. Day in the life album is my sacred album
I remember Wes also.
Wes Montgomery was THE guitarist. When i hears him and Hammond B3 great Jimmy Smith on THE DYNAMIC DUO album I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Just superb. Real soul-satisfying. This pianist reminds me a bit of Red Garland
It's STILL AWESOME!! True blues or not. Just enjoy the master at his craft!!
As smooth as it gets. Love this music
Live at the Half Note with Wynton Kelly has to be in my top 10 albums of all time
Fabulous LP 👌
Unforgettable! One of a kind~
There is something serene and effortless in how he plays and obviously enjoys doing so. So much at ease in what he is doing and Pim Jacobs is also a revelation.
my favorite guitarist.
Love those octaves !!! Now that I think about it the way George Benson plays you can hear a lot of what he took from him
HIS TAKE ON THE BLUES RIFF ,Had Nothing borrowed from outer guitarist ,Thats Huge people ❤ A VOICE IN THE MALL ❤❤❤ 2:38
This is absolutely awesome. I'm going to swing these tunes Wes performed with this Trio right into the weekend. The sounds are PERFECT!!!! 💃 🎶🎹 🎸
So rhythmically and harmonically balanced and soothing. If you can't dig this, sumpin is seriously wrong with ya. Thanks for this post
this is basically a masterclass, love this solo man
This lineup is INSANELY great!!
Very nice footage & tunes...they are fkn COOKIN'!!!!...Ow! Yeaaaaa.....hhhhh....ahhhhh
The 5 dislikes...clap on 1 and 3.
+Pete TheMan Ha, ha. Nailed it.
hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
If they could even manage clapping on 1 and 3...
Pete TheMan I'm sure the dislikes are because as great as Wes is... this is still a jazz musician TRYING to play the blues. This isn't even remotely blues at all!
Milwaukee Matzen It is not at all.... try again.
This band's really cooking and Wes is obviously having a great time jamming with 'em. So cool to hear how the whole band, including Wes, are really playing off each other. Wes and Pim take stellar solos !!
Awesome too how they just jumped right into it with not windup, just immediate jamming. Excellent set
The bass player has a flow about him, he makes it all work!
Wes is the greatest of all times! One of 5 the best and most influential jazz musicians at all !
Yes very true
Carl Flohe Amen brother still rather listen to him every note on point
Carl Flohe even tho im a guitarist and i do love wes, there are others wich ill put above. Armstrong, davis, ellington, parker and coltrane are already five. Charles Mingus, Buddy Rich, even Charlie Parker are others i find more influential
Yandhi Greatest Jazz Guitarist
Been playing for a long time. My choice on beast guitarist on the planet changes every couple of years. But Wes is the man.
Wes is to jazz guitar what Charlie Parker was to jazz saxophone. When tenor men back in the day heard 'Bird, some of them threw their axes in the river they were so intimidated and blown away. Bird raised the bar so high they despaired of ever matching what he did. Well, I've never heard of anyone throwing his arch-top guitar in the river over Wes, but he did the same thing as 'Bird did: Raised the bar to such an absurdly high level no one may ever equal what he did.
I found this guy by randomly searching under "rainy day" one rainy day, and boy am i glad I did! He's rekindled my love of jazz.
Absolutely excellent!
A great example of how much pleasure you get from playing.
Definitely a jazzy blues-jazz bluesy-oriented jam, really
Great playing! I love Wes but Pim Jacobs on piano is also a on fire here!
Fantastic listening
Let's get this to a million views guys!!!
This is pure improv, totally amazing !!!
The Pim Jacobs Trio ...superb 😊
The title of this video should actually be Jazz in f. Still Wes is Great.
you must be new to jazz but this is what is known as a 12 bar blues form (in short, blues) not blues the genre, the genre is still jazz
overflowing with spontaneity and energy!
Absolutely amazing.
What a gem ! May this diamond never leave us . Cheers
The Godfather of Smooth Jazz.
His fluid phrasing reminds me of Jimi Hendrix. Jimi had Wes records in his collection so that figures. Jimi also memorably used octaves on occasion.
I think you mean Jimi reminds you of Wes 😉
Both were absolute geniuses
Anyone else come to listen to Wes and then was like, "damn, who is that piano player?"
Mr.Stranger Pim Jacobs dutch man
I was impressed with the drummer more. Piano player is great but the drummer lets it all hang out!
Pim Jacobs - what an amazing musician! And his trio are wonderful, too.
First time I heard this concert I had to google the guy. An amazing player. And it looks like this concert was totally unrehearsed. All 4 players are truly amazing. What a joy!
Marcelo, that's because it IS unrehearsed. Wes was doing a Europe tour and he'd play with a different group in each city. This rehearsal is for the Holland gig.
Unreal how his fingers just glided so effortlessly across the fretboard regardless of how difficult it was for him to play whatever he was playing.
The all-time jazz greats always make it look so effortless and easy, don't they?
Wes' conception of the guitar was unique, but it was also the work of a genius, a man who was able to master one of the most-difficult instruments on which to play jazz - the guitar - and he did it without the benefit of a formal musical education. The jazz cats speak approvingly of guys with "big ears" - those players who can understand music deeply simply by listening to it. Wes had very big ears - the word gets overused, but he was the real deal, an absolute genius.
Wes' right-hand thumb had a corn or callus on the end of it, according to his protege, fellow jazz guitar great George Benson, which enabled him to do both up-and-down strokes, something that most people find very difficult to do when playing with their thumb instead of a pick. He used his left (fretting) hand little finger sparingly, mostly for chords and octaves, preferring to use the first three fingers to play single-note lines, along with a healthy dose of slurs, glisses, hammers-on and pull-offs, ghost notes, etc. Wes' single-note playing was uncommonly horn-like, with that popping articulation - undoubtedly due to his prefer for listening not just to other guitarists, but to horn players and piano players, too. Guitar is a very difficult instrument on which to master jazz, but Wes made it look easy. That's what years upon years of gigs, five nights a week, will do for a performer. Plus his work ethic and innate talent, of course.
Wes Montgomery(1923-1968)
O bir taksi şöförüydü..
O bir fabrika işçisiydi..
O kalabalık bir aileye bakan bir emekçiydi..
O bir gün gitara tutuldu..
O gitarı ağzıyla da çalabilen, gitarın mektepsiz ilk virtüözüdür..
O döneminin efsane bir caz gitaristidir..
Ruhu yüce olsun!..
Asilhan Bilâl
Hahhahahhahha helal sana
Thanks Bob for presenting just great,Wes is enormous
So awesome! I love EVERYTHING about Mr.Wes..😍😍😍...SIP in heavenly peace dear good man...😘
Don't forget the great Chuck Wayne..Wes lived with Chuck on Staten for awhile. Love Wes
Never knew those two greats lived together. Never got to see Wes but saw Chuck at Blues Alley l976. Just him and Jay Leonhart. They were brilliant but no one was listening. Chuck leaned over to Jay and said he wasn't even going to bother calling out the tunes. After the first set I went to his table and told him "Great set". He invited me to sit down while he ate and he patiently answered my neophyte guitarist questions. He was so gracious he even gave me the name and number of a teacher he recommended and told me to say Chuck had sent me. Great player and a friendly gentleman.
Wes always seemed like he could really enjoy himself playing with ANYBODY any time, any where (not that the trio in this video are just ANYBODY - they're obviously very skillful musicians too). But Wes' good-hearted and warm nature shined through no matter who he played with. He probably would have had just as much fun playing with guys as simplistic as the Sex Pistols just as much as he enjoyed playing with the great Wynton Kelley Trio! As Creed Taylor once remarked, the man had absolutely no pretensions about himself whatsoever!
wonderful to learn that a great and talented musician has such a down to earth, people-person character to them.
Your comment reminds me of a funny story about Wes and the guys. I think I read it in Adrian Ingram's biography of Wes... Wes had left the stage for minute or maybe they were coming off a break, but the guys in the band decided to "sand-bag" Wes by playing a really low-down gut-bucket type blues, something like Muddy Waters or Howling Wolf would have played. Anyway, turns out the joke was on them, because Wes wasted no time turning it into another one of his masterpieces.
At the end Wes says to Pim Jacobs "It sounds good" .This is quite a compliment for the Pim Jacobs Trio from one of the greatest in Jazz.
It was well-deserved, too. I've been fortunate enough to see/hear some of the finest jazz musicians in the world, and the Pim Jacobs Trio more than hold their own to that standard.
@ Andreas Larl - Re: "At the end Wes says to Pim Jacobs "It sounds good" .This is quite a compliment for the Pim Jacobs Trio from one of the greatest in Jazz."
Wes was really digging it! You can tell how much he enjoyed playing with Pim and the group. I have loved Wes Montgomery's playing for many years, but what a revelation is the playing of the Pim Jacobs Trio. They're world-class musicians.
Trio fantastico questa è gente incredibile.fantastici
Thanks for the upload! Makes most other guitarists seem clumsy.
Growing up around Vic Juris I was hearing and watching playing like this when we were both not yet even 17...
Vic was a burning guitarist. Recall a live album from 35yrs ago with him and a very young birelli lagrene.
His comping during the bass solo is amazing!
Wes' comping was an art all unto itself. The guy was just so hip - every little thing he played was a masterpiece. Most musicians - even elite-level guys - make a mistake (clam) once in a while, but in all of my years listening to Wes, I can't ever recall him making a mistake or hitting a wrong note.
Wes'comps - his accompaniments to other band members - were often masterpieces of invention in their own right. Hip as can be, creative and never overbearing or intrusive. No wonderful other jazz cats just loved playing with the guy. He had that golden ear and just that wonderful, wonderful taste for what to play when.
@@GeorgiaBoy1961 you can't hear he makes mistakes trust me
@@anotherbahamianguitarplayer - The greatest jazz musicians are so talented that they can turn their "clams" - what the cats call goofs - into something musical. And trust me, neither you nor I are at the level of musicianship we can criticize that guy. He was real genius, the genuine article.
@@GeorgiaBoy1961 You are so right... and I thought I was the only one who loves to listen to his comping.. never did he put a foot wrong .. but if you listen carefully, there has been a clam or two.. in his solos, but who cares anyway :)
He was a genius, plain and simple..
Extraordinario Wes .🐺
Wes was one of Indy's own and like Wes, so many greats such as Freddie Hubbard, J.J. Johnson, Slide Hampton to name a few, came from the little known or appreciated Indiana Ave. jazz scene. Too bad all the old clubs they played and learned their craft in are all looooong gone. All that's left is Madame Walkers.
Perryjpas
I was born too late - what a glorious time it must have been for jazz fans, not only in Indy, but in Chicago, Philly, NYC, and other places. Thank heavens for recordings!
I know a man - now deceased - who was one of the premier jazz guitar players in Chicago, a first-call guy who really could play just about anything - Frank Dawson was his name. Well, old Frank was motoring along in the mid-1960s, playing some high-profile gigs and making a living as pro musician, when he caught one of Wes's shows live. He said it was a religious experience, practically, one which left you cleansed and feeling awestruck and rejuvenated at the same time.
Sûrement le meilleur guitariste de jazz de la planète 😉
Absolutely Fantastic!
Wow Wes and his Octaves But these unknown other guys playin here Ive never heard of as good as the best of the well known best
If you were within a mile of Wes while he had his guitar you had to be great.
Four masters playing together!
The absolute best there ever was.
Deja, les gars jouent et faisait des Walkings'' qui tiennent la route'' vraiment super... surtout pour l'epoque !
Fantastic jazz blues, thanks for posting. That piano player! that cat has the swing
Swing Puro 👍🎉👍🎉 Gancho ,,, praia grande sp 👏👏👏
Could listen to this all night a gazillion times better than modern commercial b.s. which all sounds the same to me ya know?
Great display of pure talent. Thanks for this vid.
One of the greatest...
Fantastic! Band is tight. Love the bass. He's cookin!
this guy is the chosen one
Impeccable
THANK YOU !
WOW!! nice upload! Thanks my friend!
All 4 of these Cats are on point!!!!!
Piano Pim Jacobs, on bass Ruud Jacobs, drums? Geweldig, Great!!
I think that's Hans Bennik, no?
@@wighatsuperreggie Han B E N N I N K
All I can say is WOW!
Fantastic band. Wes ain't too shabby either.
love this guy!
Cool breezy as the mellow wind!
I think I’ll try some blues 😮 I just transcribed this solo, the notes aren’ the hard part but the guy is a rhythmic genius! To get his Phrases right with his time feel is great workout and shows how it’s so important to have a variety in your rhythm choices.
Il più grande di tutti!!!
komo la goza!!!!!!!!!!!!!! que bonito es jammear en conexión esta bonita harmonía.
Theres a Wes album with this trio and Clark Terry called Straight No Chaser
Blues in F Wes Montgomery 1965.thnx. Bob ..enjoyed .
Great Blues , did enjoy this a lot.
He is just killing it here- wow
Great footage, love Wes
Once them Wes octaves come in thats it nobody else
And the rest of them cats here are great also
Malarkys Malarky u
dang. I think that's Hans Bennik... so swingin....
pure magic.....wow
A fine Gibson moment :) Hope they come out of their current troubles alright.
Heavenly music!!
i wish me and my friends had timing this tight. it comes with practice i guess.
Clout Lord hahahaha very true. after i saw this i always practice with a metronome. no excuse not to use it.
speechless!!!!!!
Effortless magic.
Pete TheMan seems effortless but actually that's years and years of dedicated effort
dig that crazy beat.
Tasty stuff - thanks!
This is bad ass
Para mi uno de los grandes guitarristas de su genero.........
Wow
Lovely
The man with the gold thumb.
wes eterno e inimitabile
The Best !!
Just gets better with every listen...
2021 I’m here with you.
That intro by Wes is so tasty damn.