SEALED- Rare and OOP- Wes Montgomery Goin' Out of My Head DCC Audiophile: 180g

$

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Truly a great find! Wes Montgomery performing, produced and recorded to the max. BUT...

This is the legendary Steve Hoffman DCC Compact Classics remaster and audiophile 180 gram pressing. This is as good as it gets!

And... This is sealed in its original plastic outersleve.

Limited Edition #1459

Good Luck!

Info:

Track Listings

1. Goin' Out Of My Head

2. O Morro

3. Boss City

4. Chim Chim Cheree

5. Naptown Blues

6. Twisted Blues

7. End Of A Love Affair

8. It Was A Very Good Year

9. Golden Earrings

 Companies etc

·                                 Recorded in At– Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Credits

·                                 Alto Saxophone, Clarinet– Phil Woods

·                                 Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Piccolo Flute– Jerry Dodgion

·                                 Arranged By, Conductor– Oliver Nelson

·                                 Baritone Saxophone, Flute, Flute [Alto], Bass Clarinet– Dan Bank*

·                                 Bass– George Duvivier

·                                 Congas– Candido

·                                 Drums– Grady Tate, Sol Gubin

·                                 Engineer– Rudy Van Gelder

·                                 Engineer [Director]– Val Valentin

·                                 Liner Notes– Orrin Keepnews

·                                 Photography By [Cover]– Charles Stewart*

·                                 Piano– Herbie Hancock, Roger Kellaway

·                                 Producer– Creed Taylor

·                                 Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute– Bob Ashton*

·                                 Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet, English Horn, Oboe, Piccolo Flute– Romeo Penque

·                                 Trombone– Danny Moore, Jimmy Cleveland, Quentin Jackson, Tony Studd, Wayne Andre

·                                 Trumpet– Donald Byrd, Ernie Royal, Joe Newman

Notes

Recorded December 7, 8 and 22, 1965 at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Amazon customer review of the DCC gold compact disc (also mastered by Steve Hoffman):

Nowadays the rarest album in the whole Montgomery catalog this album went out of print long ago. I own everything Wes recorded in his life, all the original stuff (Verve, Riverside, A&M) plus some concerts recorded in those magic 9 years Wes played professionally (1959/1968). I consider this album as one of his best, Riverside albums included. It is very rare but more than ten years ago I have been lucky enough to find a copy of this cd and to buy it. It was the "Real 24 carat gold" edition of this album (I mean real gold), a part of a very limited edition serie of some of the best Jazz albums ever (for example Soultrane from John Coltrane was included in the serie). It was very very expensive, something like 40 or 50 US dollars here in Italy, but you have to consider that it was 1990's ... (1993 to be exact) so it was VERY expensive. However I bought it. I'm happy I did it because this album's value is 2, 3, 10 times more. I'm not Joking. If I was not having it, I'd spend that money to buy it.

These nine years with Wes has been only nine years yes, but how intense they were for the jazz world and for the guitar community in particular! Wes introduced a new way not only of playing the guitar in Jazz but another incredible way of playing Jazz in general! He was an hard bopper for sure just like Sonny Rollins, Johnny Griffin, Coltrane himself, but in the end his own man with an immense personality! I consider him as one of the greatest talent Jazz gave us and probably the guitar's Charlie Parker! Wes seemed unable to do something which was not absolutly outstanding (at least until A&M records which are less beautiful but not for Wes's fault but for A&M responsibilities). He recorded in those nine years a masterpiece after another and this record is no exception! This album belongs to an happy period in Wes career. The Verve period. He was already very successful thanks to the fantastic Riverside albums he recorded and he changed record company at the time arriving in Verve where they gave him a lot of money and so they were decided to take Wes to the highest heights of success. And they did. But with quality material, with quality music. With albums like this one.

This album is an orchestrated one. The director (if my memory is not going wrong) was no less than Nelson Riddle the best "easy Jazz orchestra" director of them all! He surrounded Wes with very balanced arrangements, powerful in some points and tender in other points. A perfect velvet background for Wes's fantastic solos. Wes blows here exactly like he did in the Riverside hard bop albums simply the enviroment is richer. This is not an A&M record and Nelson Riddle is a way better director than Don Sebesky (A&M choice for director chair in Wes's albums). A&M records were commercial, radio albums. This is a Jazz album with fantastic arrangements! Big difference! Wes begins here without any hurry. The title track is pure winning sixties soul jazz. What a tone Wes had! Unbelievable! So big, so warm so surrounding! He was unreachable! Jim Hall once joked that one day in the sixties he "thought to close Wes's thumb in a car's door" ... just to tribute his talent. He was SO big!! Then the album's program goes on with some popular tunes. On some of them Wes outplay every cat in the biz. For real. Listen to what he did to "Chim Chim Cheere". Unbelievable! He transformed a simple childish tune in a Jazz anthem! Faaaaaaaantastic! Phenomenal! And a big applause to Oliver Nelson too! Then you have a couple of Wes's best originals, "Naptown blues" and "Twisted blues" and in the end some superlative standards interpretations.

Really. This album is one of the best in the entire Wes's career along with "Smoking at the half note", "Willow weep for me" and all his Riverside recordings. Wes blows here with happyness and abandon and show his talents at the fullest. There will never be another Wes. His jazz always send me out of my head!