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| 1. | Down by the Riverside
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| 2. | Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka Night Train)
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| 3. | James and Wes
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| 4. | 13 (Death March)
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| 5. | Baby, It's Cold Outside
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| 6. | O.G.D. (aka Road Song)
[alternate take]
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Jazz / Soul-Jazz; Hard Bop; Crossover Jazz
Recorded: September 21 and 28, 1966, Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Jimmy Smith - Organ
Wes Montgomery - Guitar
with:
Clark Terry - Flugelhorn, Trumpet
Jimmy Maxwell - Trumpet
Joe Newman - Trumpet
Ernie Royal - Trumpet
Jimmy Cleveland - Trombone
Dick Hixson - Trombone
Quentin Jackson - Trombone
Melba Liston - Trombone
Tony Studd - Trombone (Bass)
Bob Ashton - Clarinet, Flute, Sax (Tenor)
Danny Bank - Clarinet (Bass), Flute, Flute (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
Jerry Dodgion - Reeds
Jerome Richardson - , Clarinet, Flute (Alto), Flute (Tenor)
Phil Woods - Clarinet, Saxophone
Richard Davis - Bass
Ray Barretto - Conga, Percussion
Grady Tate - Drums
Oliver Nelson - Arranger, Contractor
Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery were as influential in the Sixties as they were popular. Smith brought the Hammond organ out of the chicken shacks and into mainstream jazz. Guitarist Montgomery is legendary for his choruses of octaves and strummed chords. And the two have complementary personalities: Smith's rushed intensity make Montgomery seem serene by contrast.
These sessions quickly took on legendary status, in part because they proved to be among Montgomery's last for Verve. Using the original-master tapes and newly edited, this CD provides the best picture yet of this great jazz partnership.
* Daddy-O Daylie - Liner Notes
* Rudy Van Gelder - Engineer
* Val Valentin - Engineer
Creed Taylor matched two of his most famous artists, Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith, on this session (Montgomery's last for Verve), and the results are incendiary -- a near-ideal meeting of yin and yang. Smith comes at your throat with his big attacks and blues runs while Montgomery responds with rounder, smoother octaves and single notes that still convey much heat. They are an amazing pair, complementing each other, driving each other, using their bop and blues taproots to fuse together a sound. The romping, aggressive big band charts -- Oliver Nelson at his best -- on "Down by the Riverside" and "Night Train," and the pungently haunting chart for Gary McFarland's "13" (Death March)" still leave plenty of room for the soloists to stretch out. "James and Wes" and "Baby, It's Cold Outside" include drummer Grady Tate and conguero Ray Barretto, with Smith's own feet working the organ pedals. The Verve Master Edition reissue also includes an alternate take of "O.G.D." with Tate and Barretto, a track previously surfacing on a long-gone Encyclopedia of Jazz anthology LP from the '60s -- a neat bonus that makes this the preferred version.
---Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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