Movin' Along

1. Movin' Along

2. Tune-Up

3. Tune-Up [Take 9][*]

4. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You

5. Sandu

6. Body and Soul

7. Body and Soul [Take 2][*]

8. So Do It!

9. Says You

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Tracks:

Movin' Along
Tune-Up
Tune-Up (Take 9)
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
Sandu
Body And Soul
Body And Soul (Take 2)
So Do It!
Says You

Customer Reviews:

Movin' along with Wes.......2005-11-17

As Wes Montgomery's biographer Adrian Ingram has written, 1960 "was a very good year for Wes." He recorded six albums that year, two under his own leadership, and one each with Nat Adderley, Harold Land, Cannonball Adderley, and with his brothers under the collective name The Montgomery Brothers, all on the Riverside or Fantasy label. All the albums were critical successes and Wes went on to win Downbeat's New Star award for the year. A good year indeed!

MOVIN' ALONG was made in October, 10 months after the incredible INCREDIBLE JAZZ GUITAR session, and was a West Coast date. James Clay appears on tenor and flute and Victor Feldman is on piano (Sam Jones [b] and Louis Hayes [d] round out the rhythm section). Everyone is in good form.

The title track is a slow blues written by Wes, and contains a haunting guitar solo; Clifford Brown's SANDU, also a blues, done in medium tempo, is a classy tune done up nicely. TUNE-UP and BODY AND SOUL come in two different takes, the alternate take of the latter being a full 4 minutes longer than the originally issued take.

The highlight for me is SO DO IT!, a Montgomery original, a tune I woke up to every morning at 7 am, as did many jazz fans in the NYC area in the 1960s, it being the opening theme song to Ed Beach's JUST JAZZ program on WRVR. It's a great tune and has wonderful playing by everyone. My only complaint with this album is the miking of James Clay: often he sounds as if he was recording from inside a closet. Other than that, it's a great CD, definitely worth checking out.

Movin' Very Nicely.......2003-12-10

Paired with Cannonball Adderley's working sidemen of the time plus an obscure but sensitive flutist/saxophonist, Wes Montgomery's third album finds the singular guitarist veering comfortably between loping blues (the leadoff title track), remade standard ballads ("I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You," "Body and Soul," the latter offered in two equally fascinating and affecting takes), and jazz bristlers (Clifford Brown's memorable "Sandu," Miles Davis's rippling "Tune Up," and Montgomery's own "So Do It!" - it's easy to forget, thanks to his impeccable guitar playing, that Montgomery was also an above-average composer in his own right) and never once feeling out of place with any of them. The contrasts between Montgomery's guitar and James Clay's flute work are striking; the guitarist knitted as neatly with the Adderley rhythm section - pianist Victor Feldman, bassist Sam Jones, drummer Louis Hayes - as he did with his own legendary guitar-organ-drums trio, and they in turn seem completely at ease working with the easygoing guitarist. (Feldman, especially, sounds unpressured and relaxed, without compromising feeling or tonal subtlety.) And, Montgomery's trademarks (the smooth chords and octaves, the sleek but supple single-note lines) are enhanced by occasional playings on the high end of a (presumably six-string) bass guitar's strings (note, especially, "Sandu") that isn't as out of place as it might seem, to those more familiar with Montgomery's usual soft-toned delivery on his guitar's own lower strings.

Considering the critical hosannas and poll conquests which poured upon his first two albums ("The Wes Montgomery Trio" and "The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery"), it might have been understandable if the guitarist had had a difficult, if not impossible time following up. From the sound of "Movin' Along" (this title, by the way, was erroneously affixed to a track on his later "Portrait of Wes" when originally issued; it's since been corrected to "Blues Riff"), which seems to have been intended as a purely jamming date (and sounds as breezy, even in the ballads, as you'd expect in such an atmosphere), anyway, following up was anything but a problem for Wes Montgomery.

... And Movin' Right Along to Wes!.......2003-07-07

Jazz guitarist extraordinare Wes Montgomery's third album as a leader, "Movin' Along," was recorded for the Riverside label on October 12, 1960. It features an incredible lineup of James Clay on flute and tenor sax, and the rhythm trio of Victor Feldman on piano, Sam Jones on bass and Louis Hayes on drums (who also partnered on some slammin' Cannonball Adderley discs). While Wes can certainly hold his own with just a trio (as he does beautifully on "The Incredible Jazz Guitarist," "Groove Yard" and "Smokin' at the Half Note"), I personally find his recordings with sax added to the frontline even more compelling. As a result, "Movin' Along," along with "Full House," will always be my favorite Wes albums. Now, if they could only find some decent recordings of the short-lived partnership of Wes with Coltrane!

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