Jazz Icons: Wes Montgomery Live in '65
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Actor: Wes MontgomeryBrand: Naxos OF America INC
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Best of, Black & White, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 78 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Jazz Icons
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Summary: 5 Stars
Where do I start..? first... I have been playing the guitar for more than 40-years as a pro..and last 15-years as a jazz guitarist. This DVD has three parts..the second part was available in portions under the Ginus of Jazz guitar Vol 1 and 2.
However...this DVD has cleaned and restored the picture and sound to a level that it is just amazing from T.V. shows recording back in 60's.
Now about the content. The minute I started watching Wes in the first concert talking to the piano player and the band and teaching them a new tune by just casualy speaking and smoking ....my god..Wes Montgomery was alive and well speaking about music right in my living room.
I would say the way he plays the guitar and plays all his ideas one after another with such ease and smile..makes you cry...
Confession...the last three days I have been going home make myself a drink and playing this DVD and sit there and weep.
See ...I grew up listening and envy this guy..now I can actualy see him play....
I have seen many many jazz guitar artists play live and on screen...to me nothing beats Wes.
There are and they were lots of guitar players that as far as instrument technique have been superior ...but NOBODY had the SOUL and the GROOVE of the WES...when he gets going..the whole band is riding on his tale..as if by god I can't beleive this. he had a incredable GROOVE and sense of SWING that made the drummers happy as a kid in a candy store....
Ask any jazz guitar player what kind of guitar sound are they after ...I bet more than 90% will say I like my guitar to sound like Wes..and in the DVD you see what he is using..the Wes Montgomery Model Gibson L-5 (one pick-up only) and Standler tube amp which were being made since 1953...they still make them around $4000.00.
Now...this DVD is a must for anybody who likes jazz, anybody who playes the guitar, anybody who likes incredable visual music experience..and more...
Last...in my opinion the reason Wes elevated the Jazz guitar to another level was...he played it as a guitar not trying to emulate piano or horn lines as lots of guitar playes did or still do ( he used lots of bluesy runs and double stops and block chords)...anothewords...the way he plays ..it can only be reproduced on the guitar...not on any other instrument..and that my friends... will stay forever...!! enough already..by the DVD...make it number one on Amazon..he deserves it....!!
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