So Much Guitar! (stylized on the original album cover as SO Much Guitar!) is an album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released by Riverside Records in 1961. It was reissued by Fantasy Records as a part of the Original Jazz Classics series.[2]
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| Released | October 1961[1] | |||
| Recorded | August 4, 1961 | |||
| Studio | Plaza Sound Studios, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 38:54 | |||
| Label | Riverside | |||
| Producer | Orrin Keepnews | |||
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All the tracks are available on the Wes Montgomery compilation CD The Complete Riverside Recordings.
Reception
edit| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| DownBeat |  [5] |
| Tom Hull | B+ ( )[7] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [6] |
| PopMatters |   [4] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
AllMusic critic Scott Yanow called the album "one of Wes Montgomery's finest recordings... All eight performances are memorable in their own way."[3] PopMatters journalist Neil Kelly wrote: "So Much Guitar! is Montgomery at his most comfortably virile ... one of the finest recordings you’ll ever put in your player."[4]
Track listing
edit- "Twisted Blues" (Wes Montgomery) – 5:31
- "Cotton Tail" (Duke Ellington) – 3:38
- "I Wish I Knew" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 5:26
- "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So" (Ellington, Mack David) – 5:57
- "Repetition" (Neal Hefti) – 3:48
- "Somethin' Like Bags" (Montgomery) – 4:44
- "While We're Young" (Morty Palitz, Alec Wilder) – 2:12
- "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 7:38
Personnel
edit- Wes Montgomery – guitar
- Hank Jones – piano
- Ron Carter – bass
- Ray Barretto – conga
- Lex Humphries – drums
Production
- Orrin Keepnews – producer
- Ray Fowler – engineer
References
edit- ^ "Billboard". October 16, 1961.
- ^ AllMusic entry for So Much Guitar. Retrieved November 2009.
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "So Much Guitar > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
- ^ a b Kelly, Neil (20 October 2013). "Wes Montgomery: So Much Guitar!". PopMatters.
- ^ Down Beat: January 4, 1962 vol. 29, no. 1
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1026. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Hull, Tom (December 2013). "Recycled Goods (#115)". A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge. Tom Hull. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
- ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 485.