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Backgrounder: Wes Montgomery - 'Incredible Guitar'

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Marc Myers
Oct 20, 2023
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The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
is one of jazz's finest guitar albums. Recorded for Riverside in January 1960 and released that April, the album came out just one month after Montgomery's first album for the label, A Dynamic New Sound.


It's highly unusual for any producer to release two albums by a new artist on top of each other. That's bec…

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