Monday, September 26, 2016

Wes Montgomery: Interview '68

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was a TV show that aired briefly in 1967 and '68 in Detroit and was hosted by Jim Rockwell, a local jazz radio disc jockey on WABX-FM. In 1968, shortly before Wes Montgomery's death in June from a fatal heart attack, the guitarist appeared on Rockwell's show for a revealing interview and to play two songs with his brothers—Buddy Montgomery (p) and Monk Montgomery (b). The drummer and conga player are unknown. The group performed Windy and California Nights—easily the finest Montgomery recording of this Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Liebling song written for Lesley Gore, who recorded it in 1967.

Here's Rockwell's interview with Montgomery in full, thanks to Jimi Mentis...

And here's Lesley Gore's original...

       


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