Listening to what I think was W
es Montgomery's first recording as leader,
"A Dynamic New Sound" from 1959. It is an organ trio, with Melvin Rhyne on organ and Paul Parker on drums. It is one of the CDs of the "5 original albums" box for Wes Montgomery, and it sounds very good to me (I had previously bought a CD of just this album, and was not excited about the sound quality).
I originally bought a used LP version of this recording in the early 1980s, before I knew much of anything about jazz, and I found this music to be pretty accessible. At the time, I struggled with a lot of jazz, where I liked the head and the end, but did not understand what happened in the middle (and I still struggle with some of that sometimes!). But pretty much every song on this record grabbed me and seemed to "make sense," and it remains one of my personal favorite jazz records.
It is sounding good on this rainy day.
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