Wes Montgomery - Willow weep for me [EAC FLAC]

Willow Weep for Me is a posthumous jazz album recorded by guitarist Wes Montgomery and released in 1969. 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 Records 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.

Track listing

1- "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 7:44
2- "Portrait of Jenny" (Burdge, Robinson) – 5:06
3- "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) – 2:48
4- "Oh, You Crazy Moon" (Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 5:26
5- "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 5:29
6- "Four on Six" (Wes Montgomery) – 9:33
7- "Impressions" (John Coltrane) – 6:45
8- "Blues on Purpose"

Personnel

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