Back on Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings

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Back on Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings
Live album by Wes Montgomery

Publication
(s)

2019

admission

around 1958

Label (s) Resonance Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

22nd

occupation

production

Zev Feldman

Location (s)

Indianapolis

chronology
The Complete Montgomery Brothers Quartet Studio Sessions
(2017) 		Back on Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings -

Back on Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings is a jazz album by Wes Montgomery . It contains recordings from the late 1950s and was released by Resonance Records on April 13, 2019, Record Store Day, initially in an edition limited to 1500 copies, and as a double compact disc on April 19 . The edition, the sixth edition of the Montgomery label, documents his early career in his hometown of Indianapolis , which was recorded through studio and live recordings by Indianapolis pianist arranger Carroll DeCamp.

background

Like previous albums Echoes of Indiana Avenue (2012), In the Beginning (2015) and One Night in Indy (2016), Back on Indiana Avenue contains the music Montgomery made in his hometown in the years before he signed up for his record deal became famous with Riverside Records in 1959.

Regarding the edition of the previously unknown recordings, producer Zev Feldman wrote : “When we released Echoes of Indiana Avenue we didn't know where the tapes came from, but now with Back on Indiana Avenue we know that they were made by the great composer / pianist Carroll DeCamp. “ Lewis Porter , with the help of Jamey Aebersold , tracked Carroll's material with the as-yet-unpublished Wes Montgomery recordings - nearly three hours of recorded music. On the DeCamp recordings, Montgomery can be heard in various constellations, including piano quartets, organ trios, sextets and drum-less trios in the style of those of Nat King Cole . Although DeCamp made no record of the band staff, but Porter and the late musician and educator David Baker researched that it is with the players to colleagues such as Montgomery's brother Buddy , the longtime guitarist Melvin Rhyne and the pianist John Bunch and Carl Perkins negotiated .

The 22 tracks on Back on Indiana Avenue include "embryonic" versions of some of the numbers Montgomery would record in his early sessions for Riverside, including " Round Midnight ", "Jingles", "Whisper Not", "The End of a Love." Affair ”. Other tracks were "Ecaroh", "West Coast Blues", "Four On Six", "Mister Walker", "Tune Up" and "Sandu".

The album's liner notes include essays by jazz researcher Lewis Porter and Resonance co-president and producer Zev Feldman ; also interviews with jazz guitarists George Benson and John Scofield as well as with Jamey Aebersold and guitarist Royce Campbell , the nephew of Carroll DeCamp, the late musician and arranger from Indiana who recorded the music on the album.

The release of Resonance continued a series dedicated to Wes Montgomery, beginning with Smokin 'in Seattle: Live at The Penthouse (2017), made in 1966 with pianist Wynton Kelly , and concert recordings from French radio ( In Paris: The Definitive ORTF Recording ), both of which were nominated as Archive Releases of the Year by Down Beat , JazzTimes, and NPR Music's Jazz Critics Poll .

Track list

  • Wes Montgomery: Back on Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings (Resonance HCD-2036)
Disc One
  1. Four On Six (4:45)
  2. Mr. Walker (3:45)
  3. 'Round Midnight (7:12)
  4. So What (4:56)
  5. The End of a Love Affair (4:25)
  6. Tune Up (4:34)
  7. West Coast Blues (3:14)
  8. Jingles (8:19)
  9. It's You Or No One (4:29)
  10. Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You (5:56)
  11. Ecaroh (3:49)
  12. Sandu (4:26)
  13. Whisper Not (6:45)
Disc Two
  1. Stompin 'at the Savoy (7:26)
  2. It's You or No One (Alternate Take) (9:21)
  3. Opus De Funk (6:52)
  4. Summertime (9:38)
  5. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (4:51)
  6. Easy Living (5:49)
  7. Four (5:36)
  8. I'll Remember April (5:23)
  9. The Song Is You (8:48)

reception

The jazz magazines Down Beat and Jazziz counted the album among the most important vinyl archive and re-releases of spring 2019; the magazine quotes John Scofield as saying, “[Montgomery] was the big man back then in the '60s, so everyone knew him. If you were a kid and wanted to learn jazz guitar , he was at the top of the list. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Evans, Montgomery, Joplin: Record Store Day Extends Legacies. Down Beat, April 11, 2016, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 10 Jazz Releases You Need to Know About: Record Store Day 2019. Jazziz, March 15, 2016, accessed on April 14, 2019 .