Wes Montgomery, guitar ; in various jazz ensembles including Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley, Ray Barretto, Keeter Betts, Phil Bodner, George Brown, Ray Brown, Kenny Burrell, Ron Carter, Paul Chambers, James Clay, Jimmy Cobb, Victor Feldman, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Barry Harris, Louis Hayes, Albert Heath, Percy Heath, Milt Hinton, Lex Humphries, Dick Hyman, Milt Jackson, Osie Johnson, Hank Jones, Jimmy Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Sam Jones, Wynton Kelly, Harold Land, Buddy Montgomery, Monk Montgomery, Gene Orloff, Paul Parker, Armando Peraza, Walter Perkins, Melvin Rhyne, George Shearing, Bobby Thomas, Bobby Timmons
Streaming audio.
Title from image of compact disc cover on Web page (viewed on Sept. 30, 2008).
Program and biographical notes by Orrin Keepnews, remembrances by various artists and discography (32 pages ; illustrations) inserted.
Includes program notes.
Recorded between 1959-1963; includes previously unissued recordings and multiple takes.
Vol. 1. Disc 1. 'Round midnight -- Satin doll -- Missile blues -- Jingles -- Whisper not -- The end of a love affair -- Too late now -- Ecaroh -- Yesterdays -- Airegin -- West Coast blues -- Four on six -- Disc 2. D natural blues -- In your own sweet way -- Mister Walker -- Polka dots and moonbeams -- Gone with the wind -- Sack o' woe -- Work song -- Scrambled eggs -- Pretty memory -- Fallout -- My heart stood still -- Mean to me -- Violets for your furs -- I've got a crush on you -- Disc. 3. Compulsion -- Terrain -- Klactoveedsedstene -- Ursula -- West Coast blues -- Don't explain -- Lolita -- The chant -- Azule serape -- Disc 4. Never will I marry -- Yours is my heart alone -- Au privave -- Tune-up -- Body and soul -- So do it
Vol 2. Disc 5. So do it -- Movin' along -- I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you -- Says you -- Doujie -- Just for now -- Groove yard -- Heart strings -- Remember -- Delirium -- Disc 6. Bock to Bock -- If I should lose you -- Doujie -- Somethin' like Bags -- I'm just a luck so and so -- Cotton tail -- Twisted blues -- I wish I knew -- Repetition -- While we're young -- One for my baby -- Disc 7. Darn that dream -- And then I wrote -- Double deal -- No hard feelings -- Love walked in -- Lois Ann -- Enchanted -- Love for sale -- Stranger in paradise -- Mambo in chimes -- The lamp is low -- Blue Roz -- Jingles -- Disc. 8. Stairway to the stars -- Stablemates -- Sam Sack -- S.K.J. -- Delilah -- Come rain or come shine -- Born to be blue
Vol 3. Disc 9. Blue 'n boogie -- Cariba -- S.O.S. -- Come rain or come shine -- Born to be blue -- Full house -- Cariba -- Blue 'n boogie -- Disc 10. S.O.S. -- I've grown accustomed to her face -- In the wee small hours of the morning -- Pretty blue -- The girl next door -- God bless the child -- My romance -- Prelude to a kiss -- All the way -- Somewhere -- Tune-up -- Baubles, bangles and beads -- Disc 11. The trick bag -- Days of wine and rose -- Canadian sunset -- Dearly beloved -- For heaven's sake -- Besame mucho -- Fried pies -- The breeze and I -- Moanin' -- Dreamsville -- Disc. 12. Freddie Freeloader -- Movin' along -- Mi cosa -- For all we know -- The way you look tonight -- Yesterday's child -- Geno -- Dangerous -- Lolita -- Blues riff -- Moanin'