There is really no argument that Wes Montgomery was one of the most important guitar stylists to emerge from relative obscurity in the early 1960's. His rise to Jazz stardom began with his signing with Riverside Records and eventually moving on to the larger Verve Records. His working band of 1964/65 is tonight's Jazz Feature recorded in Paris at Le Theatre Des Champs-Elysees on March 27,1965 a few weeks after Wes' 41st Birthday. The quartet is very cohesive with the great Harold Mabern on piano, young Arthur Harper on bass and the wonderful Jimmy Lovelace on drums. We move through some Montgomery originals and a couple of standards and a John Coltrane tune "Impressions". The great Wes Montgomery at his best tonight!.
