{"product_id":"wes-montgomery-wess-best-the-best-de-luxe-edition","title":"WES MONTGOMERY: Wes's Best: The Best of Wes Montgomery on Resonance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/about_this_recording_transparent_black_shadow_2_480x480.png?v=1626961065\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResonance Records, the leading archival jazz specialists, continues their recently inaugurated series of samplers, the Takao Fujioka Collection, on June 21 with a pair of packages devoted to material from their bestselling, award-winning and previously unreleased recordings by pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Wes Montgomery.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWes’s Best: The Best of Wes Montgomery on Resonance draws from Echoes of Indiana Avenue (2012); In the Beginning (2015); One Night in Indy (2016); Smokin’ in Seattle (2017); and Back on Indiana Avenue (2019). A complete track listing for both packages appears below. Back on Indiana Avenue was issued for the first time as limited edition two-LP set on Record Store Day 2019, and 3 tracks from the album appear on Wes’s Best.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMontgomery’s Smokin’ in Seattle, culled from 1966 broadcast dates with pianist Wynton Kelly’s trio, was recorded less than a year after 1965’s classic Smokin’ at the Half Note and received similar kudos from DownBeat, JazzTimes, and NPR.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll of Resonance’s albums devoted to Evans and Montgomery have been released with the full cooperation of the musicians’ estates. Zev Feldman, Resonance co-president and producer, says, “It’s been an honor to work so closely with Evan and Robert of the Evans and Montgomery estates over the course of the last 9 years to bring these incredible, unearthed treasures to light. These artists are really in the bedrock of our label, and it’s been remarkable to see the kind of excitement our releases generate in the press and with our fans.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWes Montgomery’s son Robert writes in Wes’s Best, “It’s been a thrill to participate with Resonance Records these last nine years in getting my father’s music out to the world… I appreciate the care Resonance always takes to honor my father’s memory with each release — including interviews and essays about the music and finding rare pictures.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike Resonance’s first two compilations in the Takao Fujioka Collection – Sing a Song of Jazz: The Best of Vocal Jazz on Resonance and Jazz Piano Panorama: The Best of Piano Jazz on Resonance, released in May – the newly released Evans and Montgomery samplers features the eye-catching artwork and design of Fujioka, editor of the Japanese jazz journal Way Out West; he supplied the cover art for Resonance’s 2016 Stan Getz release Moments in Time.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_transparent_blue_background_3_480x480.png?v=1626961063\" alt=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_transparent_blue_background_3_480x480.png?v=1626961063\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJingles (from Smokin’ in Seattle)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMr. Walker (from Back on Indiana Avenue)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWest Coast Blues (from Smokin’ in Seattle)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFour on Six (from Back on Indiana Avenue)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnce I Loved (O Amor em Paz) (from Smokin’ in Seattle)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWes’ Tune (from In the Beginning)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLi’l Darling (from One Night in Indy)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGoing Down to Big Mary’s (from In the Beginning)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDiablo’s Dance (from Echoes of Indiana Avenue)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNica’s Dream (from Echoes of Indiana Avenue)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGive Me the Simple Life (from One Night in Indy)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘Round Midnight (from Back on Indiana Avenue)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Resonance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40051843858628,"sku":"0712758040343","price":13.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/products\/WesBest_AlbumCover.jpg?v=1626963224","url":"https:\/\/classicselectworld.com\/de-de\/products\/wes-montgomery-wess-best-the-best-de-luxe-edition","provider":"ClassicSelect World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}