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20TH CENTURY MASTERWORKS
Artist of the Month
Wes Montgomery
The jazz guitarist from Indianapolis, Indiana played with a unique technique that made him one of jazz’s greatest innovators. There is no one that has picked up a guitar and played jazz that has not been influenced by Wes Montgomery. The fact that he died relatively young has in some ways diminished his reputation. And yet his catalogue of recordings is a testament to his brilliance and along with Jimmy Smith and his Hammond B3, Montgomery did so much to encourage people, who were perhaps a little fearful, to give jazz a try.
Label of the Month
New World Records
Dedicated to the documentation of American music that is largely ignored by the commercial recording companies, New World Records was established in 1975 through a Rockefeller Foundation grant to celebrate America's bicentennial (1976) by producing a 100-LP anthology, with American music from many genres. In addition to this project, after 1978 New World produced new jazz by Roy Eldridge, Ricky Ford, Earl Hines, Steve Kuhn, Jay McShann, Jimmy Rushing, Buddy Tate, and Cecil Taylor, among others.”
Record of the Month
Joe Lovano
Trio Tapestry: Garden of Expression
Trio Tapestry’s musical concept is taken to the next level on its second album, Garden of Expression, a recording distinguished by its intense focus. Lovano, a saxophonist whose reach extends across the history of modern jazz and beyond, plays with exceptional sensitivity in Trio Tapestry. And the music he writes for this group - tenderly melodic or declamatory, harmonically open, rhythmically free, and spiritually involving - encourages subtle and differentiated responses from his creative partners.