![]() ![]() Music Shop Europe is a trading name of Hal Leonard MGB Distribution B.V.ĭelivery Rates & TimesMusic Shop Europe aims to provide affordable and timely options to all our customers around the globe. By using the website, you agree to be bound by these conditions.Ĭonditions of Web Site UseContract of Sale The finishing touch to a quirky but enjoyable album of jukebox blues and modern jazz.Terms & ConditionsPlease read our Terms & Conditions carefully. The group also performs a lush waltz-version of the show tune Beautiful Love. Rhyne answers the call and, regardless of the fast tempo, patiently builds a story free of clichés and counterfeit climaxes. Accompanied by deft, chubby organ chords, Buddy’s ultra-fast, probing lines slither like vipers in the grass, constantly moving forward. ![]() Luckily, as in Tin Tin Deo, Buddy Montgomery and Rhyne share swinging responsibilities. The upright bass is for modern jazz what the rug is for Jeffrey ‘The Dude’ Lebowski: it really ties the room together. But to my ears, it has a hard time bringing coherence to the overall jazz sound in comparison to the way the upright bass does. Fine modern jazz has been played with the use of the electric bass. Monk Montgomery’s electric bass playing (Monk Montgomery pioneered the use of Fender Precision bass in jazz as early as 1951 and featured it strongly with The Mastersounds) perfectly suit the blues tunes, but seriously barricades swing from the modern jazz cuts, in spite of Monk’s top-notch chops. The blues tracks are backbeat-heavy, funky. He’s very compatible with the tasteful Melvin Rhyne, who’s the king of understatement. Buddy Montgomery was an excellent, all-round vibraphonist. ![]() His notes ring shortly, matter-of-factly, more in the vein of Lionel Hampton than Bobby Hutcherson. It looks like Buddy is due at the Apollo Theatre for his Wednesday night juggling act.īuddy Montgomery utilised a focused linear approach, quicksilver, definite phrasing and notes that allure like drops of fountain water. Heretics say that it was the pomegranate that lured Adam and Eve from paradise. The Greek godess Persephones was sent back to Hades every six months because she ate six pomegranate seeds. The Egyptians believed that eating pomegranates granted immortality. Looks like citrus and a pomegranate in his left hand. What about the fruit and vegetables? I’m not sure what he’s holding in his right hand. Having said that, Buddy’s up front on the front cover of This Rather Than That. (Bobby Hutcherson’s Cruisin’ The Bird, Charlie Rouse’s Epistrophy, David “Fathead” Newman’s Blue Head) Perhaps a place in the background suited Buddy Montgomery best. An Indy cousin, so to speak.įollowing the death of Wes, Buddy Montgomery mainly concentrated on jazz education, although he kept on recording sporadically as a leader as well as a sideman with old pals in the late eighties and early nineties. Also on this album is another Indianapolis-born musician, organist Melvin Rhyne, who appeared on four acclaimed Wes Montgomery albums. ![]() Buddy was part of the tour that ended so tragically with the passing of Wes due to a heart attack shortly after on June 15, 1968, in their hometown of Indianapolis. ( Kismet, World Pacific 1958) From ‘55 to ‘61, the three brothers also starred as the Montgomery Brothers, but they played together well into the period when Wes had become a bonafide jazz star. Buddy and Monk were ‘buddies-in-crime’ in The Mastersounds from ‘57 to ‘61, a popular, accessible jazz group that also included Wes Montgomery on one album. On September 10 & 11, 1069 at Universal Recording Cooperation, Chicago Releasedįamily ties: Buddy, of course, was the younger brother of Wes Montgomery and bassist Monk Montgomery, who’s also present on this album. Buddy Montgomery (vibraphone, piano), Melvin Rhyne (organ), Jody Christian (piano A4, B1), Manty Ellis (guitar A4, B1), Monk Montgomery (Fender Bass A1, A2, B1, B2, B4), Jimmy Rowser (bass A3, A4), George Brown (drums A1-4, B1, B4) Recorded ![]()
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