Wes Montgomery – Willow Weep For Me

 

Verve Records 1968– V6-8765

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. Includes liner notes by Richard Lamb.

credits:

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

Producer – Esmond Edwards
Engineer  – Val Valentin

tracklist:

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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