SO Much Guitar!
1961 studio album by Wes Montgomery
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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 | |||
| Studios | 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
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| DownBeat |  [4] |
| Tom Hull | B+ ( )[5] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [6] |
| PopMatters | [7] |
| 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."[7]
Track listing
- "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
- Wes Montgomery – guitar
- Hank Jones – piano
- Ron Carter – bass
- Ray Barretto – conga
- Lex Humphries – drums
Production
- Orrin Keepnews – producer
- Ray Fowler – engineer