Wes Montgomery: The Complete Riverside Recordings
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| The Complete Riverside Recordings | |
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| Released | 1992 |
| Recorded | October 5, 1959 – November 27, 1963 |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Length | 805:05 |
| Label | Riverside |
| Producer | Orrin Keepnews |
The Complete Riverside Recordings is a box set of American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery's early recordings on the Riverside label. It is a twelve-CD box set and was released in 1992. It contains 157 songs and includes 15 previously unissued performances, six re-edited versions of previously issued numbers and 29 alternate takes. The extensive liner notes by producer Orrin Keepnews and Jim Ferguson, session notes, and photographs.[1] Keepnews and Ferguson received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Album Notes.
The collection covers Montgomery's recordings from 1959 until late 1963 before he moved to the Verve label. The recordings made during this period are considered by fans and jazz historians to be his best and most influential.[2] It includes recordings with his siblings Monk and Buddy, Tommy Flanagan, Nat and Cannonball Adderley, Milt Jackson, George Shearing, Johnny Griffin and many others.
