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Bags Meets Wes!

by Milt Jackson / Wes Montgomery

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OJC 234

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Released: July 1, 1991
Label: OJC

Entertainment Reviews:

Q - 5/00, p.126

4 stars out of 5 - "...Knuckle-chewing stuff, from start to finish."

Q - 5/00, p.126

4 stars out of 5 - "...Knuckle-chewing stuff, from start to finish."

Tracks:

1.S.K.J.
2.Stablemates
3.Stairway To The Stars - (take 3)
4.Stairway To The Stars - (take 2, bonus track)
5.Blue Roz
6.Sam Sack
7.Jingles - (take 9)
8.Jingles - (take 8)
9.Delilah - (take 4)
10.Delilah - (take 3, bonus track)

Product Description:

Personnel: Milt Jackson (vibraphone); Wes Montgomery (guitar); Wynton Kelly (piano); Sam Jones (bass); Philly Joe Jones (drums).

Recorded at Plaza Sound Studios, New York, New York on December 18 & 19, 1961. Originally released on Riverside (9407). Includes liner notes by Joe Goldberg.

Digitally remastered by Steve Hoffman.

Personnel: Milt Jackson (vibraphone); Wes Montgomery (guitar); Wynton Kelly (piano); Sam Jones (bass); Philly Joe Jones (drums).

Recorded at Plaza Sound Studios, New York, New York on December 18 & 19, 1961. Originally released on Riverside (9407). Includes liner notes by Joe Goldberg.

Digitally remastered using 20-bit K2 Super Coding System technology.

Personnel: Milt Jackson (vibraphone); Wes Montgomery (guitar); Wynton Kelly (piano); Sam Jones (bass instrument); Philly Joe Jones (drums).

Liner Note Author: Joe Goldberg.

One of the classic hard-bop collaborations, BAGS MEETS WES! presents guitarist Wes Montgomery and vibraphonist Milt "Bags" Jackson in an excellent 1961 session. Montgomery's warm, rootsy tone and blues-derived style provided a perfect complement to Jackson's intellectual, traditional bop approach, and the two achieve natural, sometimes scintillating dialogues on this date.

Backed by a hard-to-beat band--pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Philly Joe Jones--Bags and Wes play largely in a blues mode here, with plenty of stretching out over the 12-bar progressions. Jackson's "S.K.J." kicks off the set, and proves one of the highlights, as does Montgomery's "Jingles," an up-tempo, minor-key groove-laden song on which the co-leaders unfurl vibrantly melodic lines during their solos.