Jazz Guitar Great Wes Montgomery Goes “Pop”!
Wes Montgomery Plays “Windy” Wes Montgomery was a great jazz guitarist, but his most successful album A Day in the Life, and single “Windy” were more “Pop” than jazz. However, back in 1967 and ’68, when I was listening mostly to rock and pop music, it was through Montgomery’s albums on A&M records, that I discovered the incredible jazz guitar of Wes Montgomery. Wes recorded three albums for A&M, A Day in the Life, Down Here on the Ground, and Road Song. All of the albums contained Montgomery covering pop songs of the day, like “Windy” and “A Day…
