WES MONTGOMERY WILLOW WEEP FOR ME

 

VERVE RECORDS 1968                           V6-8765

CREDITS & NOTES

Willow Weep for Me is a posthumous jazz album recorded by guitarist
Wes Montgomery in 1965 and released in 1968. It reached number
12 on the Billboard Jazz album chart in 1969.
At the Grammy Awards of 1970 Willow Weep for Me won
the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group.

After Montgomery's death, Verve used recordings from the sessions
 that produced Smokin' at the Half Note and hired arranger
Claus Ogerman to write string and brass arrangements for
 "Willow Weep for Me", "Portrait of Jennie,""Oh! You Crazy Moon,"
and "Misty." Subsequent reissues erased the new backing arrangements.
Principally recorded live at the Half Note, New York, New York in June 1965. 

Wes Montgomery – guitar
Wynton Kelly – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums
Claus Ogerman – arranger, conductor

Producer – Esmond Edwards
Engineer  – Val Valentin

trackslist

A1        Willow Weep For Me
Written-By – Ann Ronell
7:42
A2        Impressions
Written-By – Wes Montgomery
5:01
A3        Portrait Of Jennie
Written-By – G. Burdge*, J. Russel Robinson
2:45
A4        Surrey With A Fringe On Top
Written-By – Oscar Hammerstein II
5:20
B1        Oh You Crazy Moon
Written-By – Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke*
5:27
B2        Four On Six
Written-By – Wes Montgomery
9:29
B3        Misty
Written-By – Erroll Garner, Johnny Burke
6:45

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