Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. 'Round Midnight
2. Satin Doll (Take 5-alternate)
3. Satin Doll (Take 7 originally issued)
4. Missile Blues (Take 5-alternate)
5. Missile Blues (Take 6 originally issued)
6. Jingles
7. Whisper Not
8. The End Of A Love Affair
9. Too Late Now
10. Ecaroh
11. Yesterdays
12. Airegin
13. West Coast Blues
14. Four On Six

Disc 2:

1. D Natural Blues
2. In Your Own Sweet Way
3. Mister Walker
4. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
5. Gone With The Wind
6. Sack O' Woe
7. Work Song
8. Scrambled Eggs
9. Pretty Memory
10. Fallout
11. My Heart Stood Still
12. Mean To Me
13. Violets For Your Furs
14. I've Got A Crush On You

Disc 3:

1. Compulsion
2. Terrain
3. Klactoveedsedstene
4. Ursula
5. West Coast Blues
6. Don't Explain
7. Lolita
8. The Chant
9. Azule Serape

Disc 4:

1. Never Will I Marry
2. Your Is My Heart Alone
3. Au Privave (Take 1-alternate)
4. Au Privave (Take 2-originally issued)
5. Tune-Up (Take 4-originally issued)
6. Tune-Up (Take 9-alternate)
7. Body And Soul (Take 2-alternate)
8. Body And Soul (Take 4/6-alternate)
9. Body And Soul (Take 7-originally issued)
10. Sandu
11. So Do It (Teke 1-previously unissued)

Disc 5:

1. So Do It (Take 6-originally issued)
2. Movin' Along (Take 1-alternate)
3. Movin' Along (Take 4-alternate)
4. Movin' Along (Take 5-originally issued/re-edited)
5. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
6. Says You
7. Doujie (Take 6-originally issued)
8. Doujie (Take 7-alternate)
9. Just For Now
10. Groove Yard
11. Heart Strings
12. Remember
13. Delirium

Disc 6:

1. Bock To Bock (Take 1-alternate)
2. Bock To Bock (Take 3-originally issued)
3. If I Should Lose You (Take 2-alternate)
4. If I Should Lose You (Take 4-originally issued)
5. Doujie (Take 8-previously unissued)
6. Somethin' Like Bags
7. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
8. Cotton Tail
9. Twisted Blues
10. I Wish I Knew
11. Repetition
12. While We're Young
13. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)

Disc 7:

1. Darn That Dream (Take 1-alternate)
2. Darn That Dream (Take 8-originally issued)
3. And Then I Wrote
4. Double Deal
5. No Hard Feelings
6. Love Walked In (Take 1-alternate)
7. Love Walked In (Take 8-originally issued)
8. Lois Ann
9. Enchanted
10. Love For Sale
11. Stranger In Paradise
12. Mambo In Chimes (Take 1-alternate)
13. Mambo In Chimes (Take 11-originally issued)
14. The Lamp Is Low
15. Blue Roz (Take 3-alternate)
16. Blue Roz (Take 4-originally issued)
17. Jingles (Take 8-alternate)
18. Jingles (Take 9-originally issued)

Disc 8:

1. Stairway To The Stars (Take 2-alternate)
2. Stairway To The Stars (Take 6-originally issued)
3. Stablemates (Take 2-previously unissued)
4. Stablemates (Take 4-originally issued)
5. Sam Sack (Take 2-previously unissued)
6. Sam Sack (Take 3-originally issued)
7. 'S.K.J.' (Take 4-previously unissued)
8. 'S.K.J.' (Take 7-originally issued)
9. Delilah (Take 3-alternate)
10. Delilah (Take 4-orignally issued)
11. Come Rain Or Come Shine (Take 1-alternate)
12. Born To Be Blue (Take 1-previously unissued)

Disc 9:

1. Blue 'N' Boogie (Take 1-previously unissued)
2. Cariba (Take 1-previously unissued)
3. S.O.S. (Take 2-alternate)
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine (Take 2-originally issued)
5. Born To Be Blue (Take 2-subsequently issued)
6. Full House
7. Cariba (Take 2-origianally issued)
8. Blue 'N' Boogie (Take 2-originally issued/re-edited)

Disc 10:

1. S.O.S. (Take 3-originally issued)
2. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
3. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
4. Pretty Blue (Take 1-alternate/re-edited)
5. Pretty Blue (Take 2-originally issued)
6. The Girl Next Door (Take 1-previously unissued)
7. The Girl Next Door (Take 2-originally unissued)
8. God Bless The Child (Take 2-alternate)
9. God Bless The Child (Take 4-originally issued)
10. My Romance
11. Prelude To A Kiss (Take 2-previously unissued)
12. Prelude To A Kiss (Take 3-originally issued)
13. All The Way
14. Somewhere
15. Tune-Up (Take 1-previously unissued)
16. Tune-Up (Take 2/3-alternate)
17. Tune-Up (Take 4-alternate)
18. Tune-Up (Take 5-originally issued/re-edited)
19. Baubles, Bangles And Beads (Take 3-previously unissued)
20. Baubles, Bangles And Beads (Take 4-originally issued)

Disc 11:

1. The Trick Bag (Take 2/5-originally issued)
2. The Trick Bag (Take 6-alternate)
3. Days Of Wine And Roses
4. Canadian Sunset
5. Dearly Beloved
6. For Heaven's Sake
7. Besame Mucho (Take 2-alternate)
8. Besame Mucho (Take 3-originally issued)
9. Fried Pies (Take 1-alternate)
10. Fried Pies (Take 2-originally issued/re-edited)
11. The Breeze And I
12. Moanin' (Take 7-originally issued/re-edited)
13. Dreamsville

Disc 12:

1. Freddie Freeloader
2. Movin' Along (previously unissued selection)
3. Mi Cosa (Take 1-subsequently issued)
4. For All We Know
5. The Way You Look Tonight (Take 1-originally issued)
6. The Way You Look Tonight (Take 2-alternate)
7. Yeterday's Child (previously unissued take)
8. Geno
9. Dangerous (previously unissued take)
10. Lolita (previously unissued take)
11. Blues Riff (Take 7-alternate)
12. Blues Riff (Take 8-alternate)
13. Moanin' (Take 10-alternate)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98752 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-17
• Number of discs: 12
• Formats: Best of, Box set
• Dimensions: 2.66 pounds

From Amazon.com
Guitarist Wes Montgomery recorded for Riverside from 1959 to 1963, going in that time from an obscure Indianapolis musician to the most celebrated guitarist in jazz. All the reasons for that rise are here, in a 12-CD box that includes 49 previously unreleased and alternate takes. The settings range from the organ trios with which Montgomery often worked to tracks with string accompaniment, but the music is all linked by the guitarist's highly original approach, using thumb picking and frequent octave runs to put his signature on blues, ballads, and bop tunes. Among the gems are live recordings of a quintet that includes the accelerated tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin and bassist Paul Chambers, as well as the studio recordings where Montgomery matches talents with Milt Jackson and the fine pianists Tommy Flanagan and Hank Jones. --Stuart Broomer