Wes Montgomery ‎– Tequila

Verve Records 1966– V6-8653

notes:

Tequila is an album recorded by the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery,
released in 1966 , is a mixture of tracks using just a jazz quartet with Ron Carter,
 Grady Tate and Ray Barretto and the rest with a string section arranged
 by Claus Ogerman. It is mainly a Latin-flavored album,
the first Montgomery recorded without a keyboardist.


credits:

Arranged By – Claus Ogerman (tracks: A2 to B2, B4)
Bass – Ron Carter
Cello – Abe Kessler, Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Harvey Shapiro
Congas – Ray Barretto
Drums – Grady Tate
Guitar – Wes Montgomery
Vibraphone – George Devens
Violin – Arnold Eidus, Bernard Eichen, Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff,
 Harry Lookofsky, Joe Malin, Julius Held, Paul Gershman


Engineer [Director] – Val Valentin
Engineer, Mastered By – Rudy Van Gelder
Producer – Creed Taylor

Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
on March 17, 21, & May 18, 1966.

tracklist:

A1        Tequila
Written-By – Chuck Rio
3:00
A2        Little Child (Daddy Dear)
Written-By – Wayne Shanklin
2:23
A3        What The World Needs Now Is Love
Written-By – H. David, B. Bacharach*
4:55
A4        The Big Hurt
Written-By – Wayne Shanklin
4:30
B1        Bumpin' On Sunset
Written-By – Wes Montgomery
4:45
B2        How Insensitive
Written-By – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Vinicius DeMoraes*
3:45
B3        The Thumb
Written-By – Wes Montgomery
4:30
B4        Midnight Mood
Written-By – Joe Montgomery
5:20

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