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Article: 10 things you gotta do to play like Wes Montgomery.(LESSONS)
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- Guitar Player
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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"NOTICE HOW WES LOCKS IN WITH THE RHYTHM SECTION DURING HIS solo, especially during the second half? How about those quick, stuttering octaves? And that chord solo--yow! Beginning with bluesy melodic phrases and voicings, the chordal ideas soon take off into the stratosphere we affectionately call 'Montgomeryland.' Only Wes lived there--no one else could."
The words above were penned by late, great jazz-guitar guru Ted Greene in the August '98 GP. He was referencing the "Movin' Wes Part I" solo from Movin" Wes, but he could just as easily have been talking about Montgomery's entire oeuvre. A jazz icon, Wes Montgomery (1923-1968) left an indelible imprint on the ...