This is the Dream. To walk into a darkened jazz club and find this group, this song, this rendition ready, waiting until I take my seat, mysteriously finding a gin tonic with Hendricks and a few cubes clinking in my glass ... I nod gratefully, and I am in Hamburg 1965. Don't we all want to find this club at the end of the evening? To find Wes Montgomery in his prime, this group of players, this vision of Jazz. Let the evening roll and time stand still.
I'm a huge Wes fan and Jazz is my Religion, but I'd never heard this composition..... I love the saxes on this, a gorgeous "curtain" of sound...In the beginning of the video Wes is strumming a beautiful ballad he would later record on his A&M releases. Wes lives forever!
This piece is called 'A Glass Of Cool Wine' and is only available on this session, there is a studio recording available too. As for the whole show its uploaded but youtube are stopping me because its too big sorry guys :(
The piano solo by Solal has got to be one of the finest in the history of jazz. Prior to watching this clip i'd never heard of the guy. Simply awesome!
Wow! This goes to show that an uncountable number of geniuses exists even around us... Many don't get recognised but they well and truly are geniuses. It was a chaotic, and chaotically fun rendition there!
One of the greatest jazz guitar players. I was born in 1957 therefore too young to go to the clubs where he played. My father bought his albums, and I remember him playing him and all the great jazz greats. Miles, Dizzy, Duke Ellington, etc etc
This is most beautiful Jazz peice i have ever heard, its so nice, the last 2 minutes and the refrain at the end is absolutly superb, thank you for posting :)
The switch from the soaring Sax solo of Koller to the odd phrasing from Solal is genius, i could listen to this all day. I have the whole show of this on my computer which i will upload if people would like that, im sure all you cool cats do :)
More positive optimism during the pre cell phone and closing of most Jazz clubs this music was created in while gritting teeth at times..all of them. This made the music special...not scales or modes...Felling ,swinging and Blues all in sophisticated forms. Notice how they didn't seek to outshine each other but instead sought to get ina space where the music play itself form their own hearts.
Very cool. I didn't know this DVD existed and I didn't know Wes wore a funny hat. It's great watching him play. Thanks for the vid. Now I want the DVD or at least to see the rest of the DVD.
@Hoopermazing I think you still get some lovely stuff post 50's, 60's Lee Morgan is lovely and this piece here, in the fact this whole session is great.
I still cannot find this anywhere else on the internet apart from a mention of the session on the Verve website, is there actually a studio recording of this song somewhere, its gorgeous. Solal's piano solo is one of the best i have ever heard.
He only used his pinky when playing octaves and chords. Never in solos, a well known fact for all who know his playing.. strange - isnt it ? I dont understand it either.. but he got away with that so nicely, didnt he ? 🤣 it is not that much about finger technique.. more of the feel and musicality above all, he was THE guitar genius, and the best jazz musician of all
I always hear from people that you have to roll the tone way down to get that straight ahead jazz sound, but when I listen to Wes he's got a fairly bright tone. I don't think he has the tone rolled off at all. I suppose that only would only apply if you're using a pick.
Scott Vampola hey man im no expert, but i play without a pick whatever im playing, be it rock or jazz or old timey country. i put my pickup selector all the way to the bridge and crank up my tone knobs, tho not always both, and it gives me a great montgomery-esque tone (not that i can play like him, but the timbre). to control the excessive buzz/volume of the lows i palm mute. i also use a compressor with low attack and feedback, high level. hope this helps someone!
Using the flesh of your thumb to play really warms up the tone, so you can get away with more treble if you wish without the harshness of a pick. Wes also used a technique frequently which was not unlike a classical guitar players rest-stroke, which Wes did on downstrokes with his thumb. The technique make the notes struck pop or snap a bit, just enough to stand out more. Wes' control over dynamics - tone and volume - was masterful, second to none, in my view.
@Bazzerpool1 Interesting you should say that. My dad asked me to look up some Wes Montgomery for him, so this is really the first time I've become familiar with him. I gotta say my favorite band is still Metallica, but there's definately room on my mp3 for a lot of Wes Montgomery too.
Attention all humans..! New euro-Wes clip unearthed... ! Wonderful Wes and now-euro-native-US buddyJohnny Griffin have brought extra supplies of hipness and cool from the US and the two-, no Three-Ronnies et al., lol are feeding like marooned sailors on fresh limes. This number is a bit chaotic, but Wes is so-cool, and breaks out a hip cap, and some signature trills, ultra-hip 13th blues lines, melodic-minor slides, and m11arps with so many higher extensions they've gone round the corner and are a b9 away, lol.. Unison horns are world-class... all that TV work. Sounds like Streets of San francisco...Excellent and thanks for posting. Peace
Amazing song! Hans Koller is really going to the max in his solo, and Solal is just amazing, just like Wes. Only Ross is my point of doubt. It sounds like he got the technique for his solo well prepared, but he just misses the breath for it sometimes... I tought at first it was just a mistake, but looking at some other videos of this record, it turns out to be the same... But anyway one of the best records I've heard, and I'm very happy to have it on my iPod so I can watch it all night long!! ;)
@sitarnut I agree, Johnny and Wes got plenty more soul, but dont you think solal compliments their bluesy style. Wes' thumb is not human, i wish musicians like this existed today
NDR Jazz Worskhops TV show #39 See - IMDB [dot] com - title/tt8467314/fullcredits/ Wes Montgomery - Guitar Michel Gaudry - Bass Johnny Griffin - Tenor Sax Hans Koller - Alto & Tenor Sax Ronnie Ross - Baritone Sax John Scott - Tenor Sax (as Johnny Scott) Martial Solal - Performer - Piano Ronnie Stephenson - Drums
I work with musicians all the time. I am a working musician. I always thank black musicians for creating American art forms like Jazz, Rock & Roll and Blues. What American music did we create? Country? No comparison. Jazz is the best!
All these guys were really good players. There have always been freakishly good musicians. Unfortunately, most of the amazing players go unnoticed by the general public. I was in New York a few years back and I saw a group of jazz players at a small club - they could do anything. When they introduced themselves I wasn't familiar with any of them. It is sad that such talented people fade into obscurity. It makes you wonder : what do you have to do to get famous? It is obvious it isn't just based on talent...
Being a famous musician sometimes has something to do with talent, but just as often not - especially in the more mass-market forms of music. However, in jazz, you won't get anywhere with the cats unless you know your instrument and the music cold. With the best musicians, the standards are extremely high. I saw a show in Chicago maybe ten-fifteen years ago in which Johnny Griffin came to the famous club, The Jazz Showcase, with his group. This is the same legendary tenor sax player with whom Wes performed and recorded with. As it happened, "Jaws" (Griffin's nickname) had an extremely gifted young pianist and rhythm section with him. Good thing, because Johnny came on stage and just started playing. Didn't mention the name of the tune, tell his guys what key he'd be in, or anything. He just grabbed his axe - his sax - and started playing, and expected his cats to keep up with him. At one point, he was intentionally trying to "cut" his pianist by throwing weird and unexpected stuff at him. Didn't work; the band hung with him all the way - and the show ended up being great. But that's the level of these great players, the very best jazz cats. They are elite and then some. Almost none of them end up being rich; they perform for other reasons. Honestly, you have to be driven to perform the music - because the life of a jazzman is hard, economically and otherwise.
@fujifour - Well, there is no arguing with Lee Morgan, but my tastes run more toward the 1920s - 1940s. I was being liberal in my estimate by including most of the 1950s.
Bless Wes, he wasnt so into that . He sort of played along and I guess this is one of those times where a player has to play with material he wouldnt put on his own top tunes to play list. In fact he is caught daydreaming which is so cool and at the very end he doesnt exactly jump for joy unlike some of the others. I LOVE the piano player. Anyone know his name, please?
This was such a stiff bunch, and even worse that one soon later on in London.. even less inspiring. He was so relaxed just few days before, with those Dutch gyus, Pim Jacobs Trio.. now that was really great, marvelous
Im not sure, you have to granted a pass or something, either way, its sitting in my uploads folder but they wont let me. Jazz should not have to be held back like this! haha especially when its as sublime as this performance, i gotta tell you guys Wes is good in this, but Solal is genius.
This is the Dream. To walk into a darkened jazz club and find this group, this song, this rendition ready, waiting until I take my seat, mysteriously finding a gin tonic with Hendricks and a few cubes clinking in my glass ... I nod gratefully, and I am in Hamburg 1965. Don't we all want to find this club at the end of the evening? To find Wes Montgomery in his prime, this group of players, this vision of Jazz. Let the evening roll and time stand still.
Well said
Martial Solal's solo in this song is easily one of my favorite solos ever. It's just perfect!
I'm a huge Wes fan and Jazz is my Religion, but I'd never heard this composition..... I love the saxes on this, a gorgeous "curtain" of sound...In the beginning of the video Wes is strumming a beautiful ballad he would later record on his A&M releases. Wes lives forever!
This piece is called 'A Glass Of Cool Wine' and is only available on this session, there is a studio recording available too. As for the whole show its uploaded but youtube are stopping me because its too big sorry guys :(
The piano solo by Solal has got to be one of the finest in the history of jazz. Prior to watching this clip i'd never heard of the guy. Simply awesome!
rinkydinktron __ Monsieur Solal also can be heard on cd with the great tenorist Don Byas
you have to love Wes!!!!!!! it's unavoidable, love you forever Wes!
This is really a beautiful performance, and the kind of thing we never see on television anymore. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Every man here is dug in, playing his ass off, kicking the hell out of history with Wes and Johnny Griffen.
I occasionally return to this video to restore my faith in humanity. Ross, Koller, Montgomery, Solal.. how they blend together so incredibly well.
i think exactly the same as you... unhappy humanity never cross my path
Gosh.. that's deep man - tnx for the hope much needed these days to all mankind
the older the wes the more he cooks. and this is cookin' chef style, man ....thanx for this enlightment. MORE PLEASE.
Wow! This goes to show that an uncountable number of geniuses exists even around us... Many don't get recognised but they well and truly are geniuses.
It was a chaotic, and chaotically fun rendition there!
This is incredible! And seeing Wes in a beret is icing on the cake.
One of the greatest jazz guitar players. I was born in 1957 therefore too young to go to the clubs where he played. My father bought his albums, and I remember him playing him and all the great jazz greats. Miles, Dizzy, Duke Ellington, etc etc
The drummer is Ronnie Stephenson
Man, who wouldn't want to play in a combo like this? Outstanding! Great to see cool jazz in its historical context! keep 'em coming! :-)
If,This is'nt a Piece of archived gemology I dare not find words for its creation... Beautiful...
wow.. this is what you call a real music
Great, great, great!!! I have a feeling I'll be watching this again and again. And yea, that piano guy is pretty insane.
This is most beautiful Jazz peice i have ever heard, its so nice, the last 2 minutes and the refrain at the end is absolutly superb, thank you for posting :)
Wes and Kollers making of music is magic.
What a sound! Just an incredible vibe!
MÚSICOS GENIAIS. DEIXARAM SEUS LEGADOS. BRAVOS.
The switch from the soaring Sax solo of Koller to the odd phrasing from Solal is genius, i could listen to this all day. I have the whole show of this on my computer which i will upload if people would like that, im sure all you cool cats do :)
best description ever
+estebanfreytes Nice..
:)
thank you very very very much!!!!!
The track is " The last of the wine"
damned pretty good!
More positive optimism during the pre cell phone and closing of most Jazz clubs this music was created in while gritting teeth at times..all of them. This made the music special...not scales or modes...Felling ,swinging and Blues all in sophisticated forms. Notice how they didn't seek to outshine each other but instead sought to get ina space where the music play itself form their own hearts.
Very cool. I didn't know this DVD existed and I didn't know Wes wore a funny hat. It's great watching him play. Thanks for the vid. Now I want the DVD or at least to see the rest of the DVD.
@Hoopermazing I think you still get some lovely stuff post 50's, 60's Lee Morgan is lovely and this piece here, in the fact this whole session is great.
I can't think of a more inspired pianist this side of the Atlantic than Algerian-born Martial Solal (played brilliantly with Don Byas )
Wtf that piano guy is insane
Wes, el maestro del dedo pulgar...... buenisimo.
...for sure, fujifour!! Upload the whole show... thanx.
Perfect !
I still cannot find this anywhere else on the internet apart from a mention of the session on the Verve website, is there actually a studio recording of this song somewhere, its gorgeous. Solal's piano solo is one of the best i have ever heard.
Yeah man i love this. Wes is such a cool cat. They all are kinda contempory sound too! thanks for this vid. I want to find a recording of it.
True. An amazing recording in general
Absoutely sparklingly inventine piano here from Solal.
Wes didn't use his pinky finger once in that solo. He's so adept at changing positions. Just an observation. I love Wes.
He only used his pinky when playing octaves and chords. Never in solos, a well known fact for all who know his playing.. strange - isnt it ? I dont understand it either.. but he got away with that so nicely, didnt he ? 🤣 it is not that much about finger technique.. more of the feel and musicality above all, he was THE guitar genius, and the best jazz musician of all
no (deliberate) image here.....just music for its' own sake....the way those many decades ago so intended...MAGNIFICENT !
Enfin, je le vois jouer. Sans youtube,... Thanks
Veo que hay mucho Jazz en Facebook, asique les comparto un grande que disfrutamos mucho tiempo con mi viejo.
I always hear from people that you have to roll the tone way down to get that straight ahead jazz sound, but when I listen to Wes he's got a fairly bright tone. I don't think he has the tone rolled off at all. I suppose that only would only apply if you're using a pick.
Scott Vampola yeah playing with the flesh of you thumb results in a darker tone.
Good to know guys... tnx for enreaching us all
Scott Vampola hey man im no expert, but i play without a pick whatever im playing, be it rock or jazz or old timey country. i put my pickup selector all the way to the bridge and crank up my tone knobs, tho not always both, and it gives me a great montgomery-esque tone (not that i can play like him, but the timbre). to control the excessive buzz/volume of the lows i palm mute. i also use a compressor with low attack and feedback, high level. hope this helps someone!
From my experience most of the great jazz players had a nice full bright tone, that muddy jazz tone I'm not sure where that came from.
Using the flesh of your thumb to play really warms up the tone, so you can get away with more treble if you wish without the harshness of a pick. Wes also used a technique frequently which was not unlike a classical guitar players rest-stroke, which Wes did on downstrokes with his thumb. The technique make the notes struck pop or snap a bit, just enough to stand out more. Wes' control over dynamics - tone and volume - was masterful, second to none, in my view.
wow these blues kicks! to play this is a gift
Musica maravilhosa !
Just amazing!!!!!!!!
ALL OF THESE musicians are THE REAL DEAL !!
pure , delicious ear candy !!
Pure souls are playing here.. pure souls..
Nobody has commented about the tight ensemble work is or how killer the arranging is. Talk about a lost art...
26 hours/day of practice with occasional 10-minute breaks and you get to this level of playing
this is some of the best Wes I've ever heard
No no no apppologise is needed.
TY for bringing the name up again
@Bazzerpool1 Interesting you should say that. My dad asked me to look up some Wes Montgomery for him, so this is really the first time I've become familiar with him. I gotta say my favorite band is still Metallica, but there's definately room on my mp3 for a lot of Wes Montgomery too.
It's calles Last Of The Wine from Ronnie Ross & his band. It's from the album Forum West
The Two Ronnies ! Scott on tenor and Stevenson on drums . A wonderful group altogether , n'est ce pas ? A great find , this film
Ronnie Ross takes the first solo.
yes piano is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Banda increible, todo talento Wes por su puesto, el pianista es barbaro!
Attention all humans..! New euro-Wes clip unearthed... ! Wonderful Wes and now-euro-native-US buddyJohnny Griffin have brought extra supplies of hipness and cool from the US and the two-, no Three-Ronnies et al., lol are feeding like marooned sailors on fresh limes. This number is a bit chaotic, but Wes is so-cool, and breaks out a hip cap, and some signature trills, ultra-hip 13th blues lines, melodic-minor slides, and m11arps with so many higher extensions they've gone round the corner and are a b9 away, lol.. Unison horns are world-class... all that TV work. Sounds like Streets of San francisco...Excellent and thanks for posting. Peace
U well come
Totally agree with your last paragraph,I had the privilege of seeing Wes @ Ronnie's [Gerrard St.] c.1965.
Dont Spoil the Vintage people! JAZZ will never die!:)
Awesome. Love the ending.
Amazing song! Hans Koller is really going to the max in his solo, and Solal is just amazing, just like Wes. Only Ross is my point of doubt. It sounds like he got the technique for his solo well prepared, but he just misses the breath for it sometimes... I tought at first it was just a mistake, but looking at some other videos of this record, it turns out to be the same... But anyway one of the best records I've heard, and I'm very happy to have it on my iPod so I can watch it all night long!! ;)
Well, I think Ross just played the theme, since he wrote the song, that's fair enough. He want to see the other guys solo his song.
Seriously, that thumb, though.
+君德白 xeriously, that thum doe
+君德白 srsly tht thmb thgh
just digging it never going to get better
Sadly enaugh - you are right :(
Wonderful!
@Bazzerpool1
Thank you for the lovley story that provs my theory that ther's nothing like J A Z Z in the whole wide wourld
@sitarnut
I agree, Johnny and Wes got plenty more soul, but dont you think solal compliments their bluesy style. Wes' thumb is not human, i wish musicians like this existed today
NDR Jazz Worskhops TV show #39
See - IMDB [dot] com - title/tt8467314/fullcredits/
Wes Montgomery - Guitar
Michel Gaudry - Bass
Johnny Griffin - Tenor Sax
Hans Koller - Alto & Tenor Sax
Ronnie Ross - Baritone Sax
John Scott - Tenor Sax (as Johnny Scott)
Martial Solal - Performer - Piano
Ronnie Stephenson - Drums
Ty flatsisx.
That was wonderfull
can someone put up a playlist (names of tunes) - i'd like to find more versions of this stuff
WOW!! Who's the pianist?? Incredible solo
I work with musicians all the time. I am a working musician. I always thank black musicians for creating American art forms like Jazz, Rock & Roll and Blues. What American music did we create? Country? No comparison. Jazz is the best!
Frapzoid True that, true that
Caliente'
On se sent bien en écoutant ça
Amazing solo hans koller
jesumiro batista true that
The piano guy killed it
Sure did!
Martial's solo is amazing, let's hear it for Hans Koller right before though... that low night he hit was saucy
precussionist is amazing.
Udit Gupta _ percussionist is Ronnie Stevenson , whom i saw with Sonny Rollins - Ronnie Scott's Old Place
Wes... the best.. alwalys!
What was he playing in the beginning, those few chords sounded awesome
All these guys were really good players. There have always been freakishly good musicians. Unfortunately, most of the amazing players go unnoticed by the general public. I was in New York a few years back and I saw a group of jazz players at a small club - they could do anything. When they introduced themselves I wasn't familiar with any of them. It is sad that such talented people fade into obscurity. It makes you wonder : what do you have to do to get famous? It is obvious it isn't just based on talent...
Mate who cares about beeing famous? If you're on stage playing infront of people i'm sure thats enough for most
Being a famous musician sometimes has something to do with talent, but just as often not - especially in the more mass-market forms of music. However, in jazz, you won't get anywhere with the cats unless you know your instrument and the music cold. With the best musicians, the standards are extremely high. I saw a show in Chicago maybe ten-fifteen years ago in which Johnny Griffin came to the famous club, The Jazz Showcase, with his group. This is the same legendary tenor sax player with whom Wes performed and recorded with. As it happened, "Jaws" (Griffin's nickname) had an extremely gifted young pianist and rhythm section with him. Good thing, because Johnny came on stage and just started playing. Didn't mention the name of the tune, tell his guys what key he'd be in, or anything. He just grabbed his axe - his sax - and started playing, and expected his cats to keep up with him. At one point, he was intentionally trying to "cut" his pianist by throwing weird and unexpected stuff at him. Didn't work; the band hung with him all the way - and the show ended up being great. But that's the level of these great players, the very best jazz cats. They are elite and then some. Almost none of them end up being rich; they perform for other reasons. Honestly, you have to be driven to perform the music - because the life of a jazzman is hard, economically and otherwise.
@fujifour - Well, there is no arguing with Lee Morgan, but my tastes run more toward the 1920s - 1940s. I was being liberal in my estimate by including most of the 1950s.
Truly a blast from the pass ,when true jazz was separate from fusion
magical
Bless Wes, he wasnt so into that .
He sort of played along and I guess this is one of those times where a player has to play with material he wouldnt put on his own top tunes to play list.
In fact he is caught daydreaming which is so cool and at the very end he doesnt exactly jump for joy unlike some of the others.
I LOVE the piano player.
Anyone know his name, please?
This was such a stiff bunch, and even worse that one soon later on in London.. even less inspiring. He was so relaxed just few days before, with those Dutch gyus, Pim Jacobs Trio.. now that was really great, marvelous
Perso je ne connaissais pas ...It is a great music !!! i'm not borned in 1965 (1968) but this music is actually very good
bruno bernard A magical gathering.
Im not sure, you have to granted a pass or something, either way, its sitting in my uploads folder but they wont let me. Jazz should not have to be held back like this! haha especially when its as sublime as this performance, i gotta tell you guys Wes is good in this, but Solal is genius.
yes its Ronnie Stephenson.
Was this a tv program? I have only seen West Coast Blues by this ensemble. This is a great find.
Wes brings the swing in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah !
Cool horn arrangements. Were those by Ronnie Scott?
holy shit, didn't know germans rocked so much in the 60. :)
great footage
Haha . They are all British, kept Wes. I think it was a recording deal for a German company so done in Hamburg. Pretty wild whoever they are.
Thanks for uploading this gem !! Please, could anybody tell me who' s the author for this tune? Do any other versions exist? Thanks for that too.
Autor is Ronnie Ross, the first sax played... the other version i know is from his album that have been recorded before this jam
Thanks a lot for R von F.
You welcome
That piano player is fucking killing, good lord.
Josh,~~~~> Si Senor ! that's Algerian Martial Solal . . .
exellent video!!
What's the name of the tune?
I check "why try mr" on google, nothing...
Does anyone knows the album of this session?
Thanks =)
Does anybody know who the drummer is? could it be Ronnie Stephenson?
Hansen Koller with the major 3rd at 5:11 and when he came un. Man it's minor!
@fujifour - I agree, but I'd put the cutoff mark at around 1958.
who is that pianist goddam!
+Leif Gustavson Martial Solal
TY for the inlightment fujifour