Don't know about my cholesterol, but t lowered my blood pressure.

100% AGREED MORE PEOPLE NEED TO LISTEN TO THIS

@@sorshiaemms5959 Everything. The way they play instruments is different. The way drummer holds sticks, Wes Montgomery light touch. When I’m not paying attention the guitar sounds like horns sometimes dual harmony horns. I’ll never listen trout mask replica ever again.

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wow 1 day ago? I didn't think anyone would be here in 2024

@@davlynpratt2548 The UKposts algorithm works in mysterious ways.

He's deceptively good... I play jazz guitar, and some of the stuff he pulls out of his ass is incredible.

There's a great NPR Jazz Profiles on Wes. Not a movie, but about the closest thing out right now. Great interviews, and talks about his practice habits and getting inspired by Charlie Christian.

@@mrscottybergs is it available for upload?

@@scottbuscavage7361 www.npr.org/2007/09/26/14687657/wes-montgomery-the-unmistakable-jazz-guitar

@@mrscottybergs thank you so much😎🎸

So well put.. he was incredible musician first and formost, he could have played any instrument and be equally amazing on it. Thank God he choose the guitar :)

@ ScottGoldbergguitar - I'm an old guy now - 62 and counting - so I have been listening to Wes Montgomery now for a long time. I didn't even discover his music until I was in my early twenties, but that still means forty or so years of listening to the man. And the more time passes, the more I am awed by his greatness and just how utterly unique he and his music really were. You're right: There's no one else like Wes. It is a measure of the greatness of Wes Montgomery that even the very best jazz musicians in the world - including many of the people with whom he played - were amazed by his genius. Wynton Kelly, acclaimed by many jazz pianists as the finest accompanist ever in modern jazz, sometimes just "laid out" - dropped out of the band entirely - during some of Wes' lengthy minutes-long multi-chorus solo flights. He didn't see any reason to play, so he didn't. Kelly was an extremely rare and elite talent himself, so it speaks to just how special and unique Wes really was. Guys like him didn't impress easy....

precious words man-

Free? How do you get free Internet and a free computer? I had to pay $500 or so for my Dell desktop and accessories and pay $100 a month for phone and Internet! Not to mention being tracked by Google.

Totally agree with you: Wes Montgomery is a School on itself. So much to learn. Who would you think has picked uphis torch and carried on his legacy ?

Jajaa

14:27 = end of a love affair

@@antarctican69 gracias capo!

@@maurocialone de nada wey

This cat's HIP MAN true mvp

Hallelujah

Then it was a great day, indeed. I still remember I discovered Wes myself.

❤

🍻

You’ll never forget him

Yes wesbon

O yeah :)

Music first, none of the superficial bs.

wow, didn't know that! I always associated Laird with England and electric bass, but it makes sense he had played the upright and, the world being smaller then, had played with Wes

I don't think that is Rick Laird. I'm sure that is Ruud Jacobs, brother of Pim Jacobs, the pianist.

@@WillemdeBoerCoaching Think he is referring to the last segment of this video - where Ronnie Scott appears as compare. That is Rick Laird for sure.

Oh but he had the disposition of a jazz musician for sure. Years before he became famous, younger cats would sit at the Missile Room. If they messed up (and trust me that's often)-yoiu're allowed to play a couple of abbreviated choruses and sit down), then they were invited to come back when they got things worked out - albeit gracefully. There's a UKposts documentary on this. Wes showed Pim the chord changes. At the Missile Room, however, you were expected to know the songs and chords. One dude recalls asking Wes for tchord changes, you guessed it. He was invited to come back after working things out.

Absolutely right

He's HUMBLE ..I wonderful quality that is a dying breed. God Hates Pride. EGO stands for: "Edging God Out". But now, its all about PRIDE and Ego. And its the Evil type of Pride...Jus my two cents.

Something we need to relearn as a society

@@donmilland7606 - That's old-school tough love, jazz cat's style. You had to know your axe (instrument or voice, if you sang) cold, the tunes and the changes. No one was going to wait around for you to figure things out - no practicing on the bandstand! If the cats really wanted to test someone out big-time, they'll call some standard - maybe "Cherokee" or something like that - and then cycle it through all twelve keys at some ridiculous tempo. That separates the real deal players from the also-rans quite quickly. Wes was extremely humble and a pleasure to be around, according to those who knew him best. I'm speculating, but I think that he was maybe helping the Pim and the group out because of concerns over the language barrier - but as you can see/hear, once the trio show Wes they know how to play, everyone settles in really well and they sound great together. Honestly, I wish Wes had done more with the group, because they had real chemistry together.

Truth

Pim Jacobs (1934-1996) from Holland is the piano player.Well known in this small country.

Christine Berven Rick Laird who went on to work with Mahavishnu John McLaughlin.

Thank you.

Han Bennink is still playing. I was fortunate to work with him and ICP Orchestra a few years ago.

Thanks for this, so we can fully appreciate the supporting musicians, who do a swinging job here!

Sure is that . So few understand.... awesome

@@tonishower6391 In a documentary, even Wes’s wife said she thought he should keep his music easier to understand, more accessible to the average listener. Maybe that’s why he did those easy listening covers like “Windy”, which don’t display his genius. I get it, his management wanted him on the radio etc. As a musician myself I like to do easy and hard too, ya know, do a bit of everything. I can’t even imagine what he would have done in the next part of his career, but it would’ve been awesome.

Same in 2024!!

❤ All I can say

Check out the Documentary on PBS about Wes’ life and Music. Awesome🎉❤

dang 1970?? I found him when I was looking for some jazz to do work to when I was in high school (maybe 2 - 3 years ago now) and he's definitely changed the way I look at music now

Absolutely spot on. If music has a place in your life, you just cant but adore Wes.

@adambrenner1721 - We know it as the tritone substitution, but Wes had virtually no formal instruction - he studied and swapped info and ideas some with fellow musicians and his brothers (Monk and Buddy were also gifted musicians) - and he figured out almost everything he knew unaided, by ear and by playing. Wes amazed Cannonball Adderley and his brother Nat and their group when doing recordings and gigs with Wes, saying "He plays in the wrong key, but it sounds so great we don't care!" His harmonic and melodic reharmonizations and substitutions were so hip and sophisticated, guys at Adderley's level were impressed. That's pretty hardcore greatness right there! As Wes showed, there are those rare individuals once in a while who are musical geniuses, and who can understand music at a very deep level without any formal instruction or with very little. Errol Garner, the legendary jazz pianist, was another one in that mold.

Justo pensaba en algo similar. Ni los guitarristas que hoy se consideran supremos tienen esta habilidad de improvisación, es como si esta era fue el pique de la habilidad musical

je pense que pour apprécier le jazz il faut une culture musical minimum quand aux personnes qui ont mis le pouce en bas ca ne m'étonne pas car l'incompréhension suscite le rejet ...

oui!

It absolutely is !!!

Who is the guy in the Bass chair ?

The whole shabang! 👍

Phénoménal, merci pour les vidéos

Same here!

The man can play!

Same here in 2021.

Wes his smile is pure gold. The joy in his face is so unmistakably real. He really enjoys playing and makes me enjoy and appreciate life and music more.

Truer words have never been said . Yes , Wes is God .

There's a cool write up by pat metheny about this. Here's my fav quote, " Wes often proved to be a challenge for pianists. While many guitarists stick to single note horn-like playing when soloing with piano, Wes was a player who was constantly dropping in his own polyphonic asides and was ready to launch into full-blown harmonic variations at any point. Pianists used to controlling all the harmonic and rhythm section traffic might prove to be undone by such a challenging force as Wes. Through the quality of his listening, Pim Jacobs brings a level of attention to the details of Wes’s playing here that gives the guitarist the wide berth that he commanded while providing excellent and sensitive accompaniment throughout."

Ben Martens that’s awesome. Very interesting. While pat is not my fav guitar hero at all, these words make so much sense!

@@benmartens2885 Sensitive analysis by Metheny (as you'd expect). Is the whole write up online somewhere? Love to get a look at it.

he probably could play sleeping but back then its how players used to think like a cocktail mixer for the bilderbergs

Dutch actually, Pim Jacobs trio with Han Bennink on drums! Legends in their own right!

yes Pim Jacobs indeed!

they are for sure having fun...nice to see that

Yeah - something about this one transcends it's origins as anything overtly 'jazz' per se, and is instead conveying a MOST superb 'conversation' between seemingly the greatest of friends.

Mine too.

Wes, and Clifford Brown.

it's the thumb!

idk dude he had pretty virtuosic technique. He just also had virtuosic feel.

You gotta check out for Dizzy Gillespie also. Man you will enjoy

@@givemoregawaza756 love Dizzy, & do. he was one of the Giants

Yes good wes magic fingers Montgomery forever jazz music

Openness to different styles of music will only help you play the loud music you like better, and with a more unique sound. That’s why I’m thankful I got into jazz 3 years ago, really opened up my mind.

@@themagicminstrels476 1000%

nemo Truly. I’m glad he got to see modest commercial success rather than languish in little bars forever. He paid plenty of dues. It blows my mind he developed to his level while factory welding full time, for God’s sake. Also, the times you live in do heavily control some careers like music. I don’t think his talent could flourish today with today’s “tastes”, because there is not the demand no matter how good your product is, if it’s not the fashion or trend.

@chilitoday - yes indeed , at first he had to make a living as a welder and practice at night . One story has it that landlord and other tenants complained of Wes practicing in the middle of the night . so he started using his thumb to pick with to diminish the volume . It's the music business fat cats who recently and currently have dumbed down the tastes of the listeners . simply put , it sucks .

nemo Wes was fortunate in one big way. He lived in an era where music was much more sophisticated than now, coming off big bands. Great tunes were well known and had wide exposure. There was junk out too but compared to today, that junk was beautiful. Corner dive bars had great jazz going every night. That’s almost extinct. The culture has moved away from beautiful melody and harmony and toward ugliness.

I'd say he or some others watched alot of play by ear musicians so they might have been like music school students that got ideas to hot rod their stuff

@@chilitoday man some people like chocolate and others vanilla music is a big icecream bar

How do you know when a bass player is taking his solo? Not even his girlfriend is watching (ba-dum...crash)

I used to hate when other band members talked while I soloed. Then I grew up.