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Wes Montgomery: Full House (JVC VICJ-60171).(Review)

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Wes Montgomery: Full House (JVC VICJ-60171)

This JVC XRCD release is of a live recording made on June 25, 1962, at a jazz club in Berkeley, California. The band was certainly a crack one: Montgomery on guitar, Johnny Griffin on tenor sax, Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Wally Heider was the engineer, and the sound is not bad (the bottom end is not very good, but that nearly always is the case in these sorts of venues), with some sense of constriction but nothing really annoying. Remember, folks, that a jazz combo playing in a small club is not sonically splendiferous to start with -- you just ...

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