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In 1959 Montgomery was signed to the Riverside Records label, and remained there until late 1963, just before the company went bankrupt. The recordings made during this period are widely considered by fans and jazz historians to be Montgomery's best and most influential. Two sessions in January 1960 yielded the record, The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, which was recorded as a quartet with pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath. The album featured two of Montgomery's best known compositions, Four on Six" and "West Coast Blues." This album is included on the first volume of this 2 x 4 CD series, The Complete Recordings 1958 1960. Almost all of Montgomery's output on Riverside featured the guitarist in a small group setting, usually a trio (and always with his organist from his Indianapolis days, Melvin Rhyne), a quartet, or a quintet, playing a mixture of hard-swinging uptempo jazz numbers and quiet ballads. On the morning of June 15, 1968, while at home in Indianapolis, Montgomery awoke and remarked to his wife that he didn't feel well. He soon collapsed, dying of a heart attack within minutes. Only 45 years old at the time, Montgomery had just returned from a tour with his quintet and was at the height of his fame, having attained a degree of popular acceptance that few jazz artists in that era achieved. Montgomery's home town of Indianapolis later named a park in his honor.
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TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
Ursula
Klactoveedsedstene
Don't Explain
West Coast Blues
Terrain
Compulsion
Work Song
Pretty Memory
I've Got a Crush On You
Mean To Me
Fallout
Sack of Woe
My Heart Stood Still
Violets For Your Furs
Scrambled Eggs
Disc 2
Back To Back
Groove Yard
If I Should Lose You
Delirium
Just For Now
Doujie
Heart Strings
Remember
Jeannine
Snowfall
Angel Eyes
Barbados
And This is My Beloved
This Love of Mine
On Green Dolphin Street
You Don't Know What Love is
Beaux Arts
Disc 3
Twisted Blues
Cotton Tail
I Wish I Knew
I'm Just a Lucky So and So
Repetition
Something Like Bags
While We're Young
One For My Baby
Love Walked In
Love For Sale
No Hard Feelings
Enchanted
Stranger In Paradise
The Lamp is Low
Double Deal
And Then I Wrote
Darn That Dream
Lois Ann
Mambo In Chimes
Disc 4
S.K.J.
Stablemates
Stairway To the Stars
Blue Roz
Sam's Sack
Full House
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
Blue 'N' Boogie
Cariba
Come Rain or Come Shine
S.O.S.
Born To Be Blue
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