SO Much Guitar!
Studio album by
Wes Montgomery
ReleasedOctober 1961[1]
RecordedAugust 4, 1961
StudioPlaza Sound Studios, New York City
GenreJazz
Length38:54
LabelRiverside
ProducerOrrin Keepnews
Wes Montgomery chronology
Movin' Along
(1960) 		SO Much Guitar!
(1961) 		Bags Meets Wes!
(1962)

So Much Guitar! (stylized on the original album cover as SO Much Guitar!) is an album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released by Riverside Records in 1961. It was reissued by Fantasy Records as a part of the Original Jazz Classics series.[2]

All the tracks are available on the Wes Montgomery compilation CD The Complete Riverside Recordings.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
DownBeat[5]
Tom HullB+ ((2-star Honorable Mention)(2-star Honorable Mention))[7]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[6]
PopMatters[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[8]

AllMusic critic Scott Yanow called the album "one of Wes Montgomery's finest recordings... All eight performances are memorable in their own way."[3] PopMatters journalist Neil Kelly wrote: "So Much Guitar! is Montgomery at his most comfortably virile ... one of the finest recordings you’ll ever put in your player."[4]

Track listing

  1. "Twisted Blues" (Wes Montgomery) – 5:31
  2. "Cotton Tail" (Duke Ellington) – 3:38
  3. "I Wish I Knew" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 5:26
  4. "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So" (Ellington, Mack David) – 5:57
  5. "Repetition" (Neal Hefti) – 3:48
  6. "Somethin' Like Bags" (Montgomery) – 4:44
  7. "While We're Young" (Morty Palitz, Alec Wilder) – 2:12
  8. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 7:38

Personnel

Production

References

  1. ^ "Billboard". October 16, 1961.
  2. ^ AllMusic entry for So Much Guitar. Retrieved November 2009.
  3. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "So Much Guitar > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Kelly, Neil (20 October 2013). "Wes Montgomery: So Much Guitar!". PopMatters.
  5. ^ Down Beat: January 4, 1962 vol. 29, no. 1
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1026. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. ^ Hull, Tom (December 2013). "Recycled Goods (#115)". A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge. Tom Hull. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  8. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 485.

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