Wes Montgomery: Bumpin’ / Just Walkin’

Date:	Sunday, May 16, 1965
Label/Number:	Verve V6-8625 / V6-8804
Personnel:	Wes Montgomery (g) Roger Kellaway (p) Bob Cranshaw (b) Grady Tate or Helcio Milito (d) Candido Camero (bongos, conga) Arnold Eidus, Lewis Eley, Paul Gershman, Louis Haber, Julius Held, Harry Lookofsky, Joe Malignaggi, Gene Orloff, Sol Shapiro (vln) Harold Coletta, David Schwartz (vla) George Ricci, Charles McCracken (cello) Margaret Ross (hp) Don Sebesky (arr, cond)
Tracks:	Musty / Just Walkin’/ Here’s That Rainy Day
Location:	Englewood Cliffs
Producer:	Creed Taylor
Liner Notes:	Chuck Taylor /
Research Comments:	With this album Creed Taylor and Don Sebesky established the formula they were to use extensively from this time forward on Verve and later on A&M and CTI of having the artist record with a rhythm section first, and then overdubbing additional horn and/or string parts later. Once Montgomery had laid down his tracks, Sebesky would take the tape, “go home and analyze it, and figure out the best way to sort of amplify, and raise to another standard of sort of polish, what he had done on his own. Rather than asking him to fit into a framework that was thrust upon him. And that’s what we did for all the albums we did after that.” (Don Sebesky, NPR Jazz Profile on Wes Montgomery, July 1999.)
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Sources:	CVD TL (BK) AJ-IJS LOC CDJ