Wes Montgomery / by Adrian Ingram.
| Author/creator | Ingram, Adrian |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Gateshead, England : Ashley Mark Publishing Co., 1985. |
| Description | 127 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 29 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Beginnings -- The Riverside years -- Commercial success -- Guitaristically speaking -- Impressions -- Appendices. The L.P. recordings ; Compositions ; Chord shapes ; The octave technique ; Bibliography. |
| Abstract | Wes Montgomery was unquestionably the most significant jazz guitarist to emerge during the 1960s. During the 70s and 80s he had, like Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt before him, become a major influence on other guitar players. Elements of his style are discernable in many of today's finest players. Although many musicians acknowledge that Wes was one of the finest guitar players of the 20th century (as a cursory glance at the chapter impressions will confirm) there has been until now a lack of detailed biographical and analytical material. Wes did not feel that such things were really important and preferred to get on with playing. He had, however, a healthy curiosity about music and would have relished a similar book, had one been available, about his own first and lasting idol Charlie Christian. The author hopes that this book will be widely read and enjoyed by guitarists and jazz guitar enthusiasts everywhere and that Wes' achievements, so often narrowly categorized as the development of octave playing, will be more fully understood and appreciated. |
| Bibliography note | Discography: pages 71-110. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages 123-126. |
| ISBN | 0950622494 |