On a rainy night in Memphis, I decided to take a listen to Wes Montgomery\u2019s two well-known albums A Day In The Life <\/i>and Road Song. <\/i>This time around, we\u2019ll focus on A Day In The Life. <\/i><\/p>\n
Wes Montgomery shoots from the hip. Yet his shots are more accurate than most of his peers of the time. Each note on this album, although seemingly improvised, enjoys a relationship with the song like that of a fully notated orchestral movement. Speaking of that, Wes takes a dip into the unknown with every orchestral movement in this album. <\/p>\n
The album is a welcome mix of:<\/p>\n
Jazz: the strain descendant of the cool-school, soul-ee, guitar haven in the sky. <\/p>\n
Pop: The melodic swings, the hooks upon hooks without saying a word, and all while covering the Beatles\u2014not the \u201cI Want To Hold Your Hand\u201d Beatles, but the \u201cA Day In The Life\u201d and \u201cEleanor Rigby\u201d Beatles. <\/p>\n
Classical: \u201cClassical\u201d doesn\u2019t truly describe what the marvelous string arrangements throughout the album say. If anything they could perhaps be reminiscent of the Romantic era of popular music\u2014the difference being that they\u2019re infused with the song, rather than them being the song entirely. <\/p>\n
As a guitarist, I would be remiss in my duty not to address Montgomery\u2019s guitar playing in this review. The endless liveliness of the weeping guitar always at his fingers, without ever losing the tempo, Wes swings and handles breaks through ever-changing forms. He sings the pop of the era to the crowd too close to the ground to hear vocals; that\u2019s who A Day In The Life <\/i>is for. <\/p>\n
Supported by A-list jazzmen Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter and iconic producer Creed Taylor, on A Day In The Life<\/i> Wes Montgomery turns pop standards into jazz standards and makes it all sound smooth as butter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":29754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8271],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-46409","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-wes-montgomery","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46409"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}