The Complete Riverside Recordings

Compilation by Wes Montgomery

Released 28 October 1996

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
'Round Midnight
4:55
2
Satin Doll (alternate take 5)
4:08
3
Satin Doll (master take 7)
3:58
4
Missile Blues (take 5)
4:36
5
Missile Blues (master take 6)
6:02
6
Jingles
5:34
7
Whisper Not
4:38
8
The End of a Love Affair
3:15
9
Too Late Now
4:53
10
Ecaroh
2:58
11
Yesterdays
3:18
12
Airegin
4:29
13
West Coast Blues
7:23
14
Four on Six
6:18
4.0 ★
CD 2
1
D Natural Blues
5:24
3.5 ★
2
In Your Own Sweet Way
4:53
3
Mister Walker
4:34
4
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
4:44
5.0 ★
5
Gone With the Wind
6:28
6
Sack O'Woe
4:26
7
Work Song
4:14
8
Scrambled Egg
3:22
9
Pretty Memory
3:51
10
Fallout
4:52
11
My Heart Stood Still
6:26
12
Mean to Me
5:01
13
Violets for Your Furs
3:48
14
I've Got a Crush on You
2:55
CD 3
1
Compulsion
6:49
2
Terrain
7:47
3
Klact-Oveeseds-Tene
10:00
4
Ursula
7:06
5
West Coast Blues
6:02
6
Don't Explain
4:57
7
Lolita
8:08
8
The Chant
6:37
9
Azule Serape
6:27
CD 4
1
Never Will I Marry
8:35
2
Yours Is My Heart Alone
6:07
3
Au Privave (alternate take 1)
4:28
4
Au Privave (master take 2)
3:58
5
Tune-Up (master take 4)
4:32
6
Tune-Up (alternate take 9)
4:44
7
Body and Soul (alternate take 2)
11:22
8
Body and Soul (alternate take 4/6)
7:31
9
Body and Soul (master take 7)
7:22
10
Sandu
3:26
11
So Do It! (take 1)
6:24
CD 5
1
So Do It! (master take 6)
6:06
2
Movin' Along (alternate take 1)
6:41
3
Movin' Along (alternate take 4)
6:25
4
Movin' Along (master take 5, re-edited)
6:13
5
(I Don't Stand a) Ghost of a Chance (With You)
5:03
6
Says You
5:02
7
Doujie (master take 6)
4:37
8
Doujie (alternate take 7)
4:26
9
Just for Now
4:57
10
Grooveyard
3:01
11
Heart String
4:35
12
Remember
5:38
13
Delirium
3:37
CD 6
1
Bock to Bock (alternate take 1)
5:38
2
Bock to Bock (master take 3)
6:45
3
If I Should Lose You (alternate take 2)
6:14
4
If I Should Lose You (master take 4)
5:50
5
Doujie (take 8)
4:52
6
Somethin' Like Bags
4:48
7
I'm Just a Lucky So and So
5:57
8
Cotton Tail
3:40
9
Twisted Blues
5:38
10
I Wish I Knew
5:29
11
Repetition
3:54
4.0 ★
12
While We're Young
2:16
13
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
7:41
CD 7
1
Darn That Dream (alternate take 1)
4:12
2
Darn That Dream (master take 8)
4:20
3
And Then I Wrote
3:18
4
Double Deal
3:48
5
No Hard Feelings
3:48
6
Love Walked In (alternate take 1)
3:40
7
Love Walked In (master take 11)
2:12
8
Lois Ann
3:11
9
Enchanted
3:38
10
Love for Sale
3:31
11
Stranger in Paradise
4:51
12
Mambo in Chimes (alternate take 1)
4:08
13
Mambo in Chimes (master take 11)
2:29
14
The Lamp Is Low
2:17
15
Blue Roz (alternate take 3)
4:46
16
Blue Roz (master take 4)
4:47
17
Jingles (alternate take 8)
6:53
18
Jingles (master take 9)
6:53
CD 8
1
Stairway to the Stars (alternate take 2)
3:48
2
Stairway to the Stars (master take 6)
3:40
3
Stablemates (take 2)
5:19
4
Stablemates (master take 4)
5:46
5
Sam Sack (take 2)
5:39
6
Sam Sack (master take 3)
6:07
7
S.K.J. (take 4)
5:21
8
S.K.J. (master take 7)
5:17
9
Delilah (alternate take 3)
6:22
10
Delilah (master take 4)
6:16
11
Come Rain or Come Shine (alternate take 1)
7:22
12
Born to Be Blue (take 1)
7:27
CD 9
1
Blue 'n' Boogie (take 1)
11:03
2
Cariba (take 1)
8:29
3
S.O. S (alternate take 2)
4:48
4
Come Rain or Come Shine (master take 2)
6:57
5
Born to Be Blue (take 2)
7:27
6
Full House
9:14
7
Cariba (master take 2)
9:40
8
Blue 'n' Boogie (master take 2)
9:56
CD 10
1
S.O.S. (master take 3)
5:04
2
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
3:31
3
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
2:51
4
Pretty Blue (alternate take 1)
3:18
5
Pretty Blue (master take 2)
3:42
6
The Girl Next Door (take 1)
3:09
7
The Girl Next Door (master take 2)
3:09
8
God Bless the Child (alternate take 2)
3:18
9
God Bless the Child (master take 4)
3:20
10
My Romance
2:32
11
Prelude to a Kiss (take 2)
3:08
12
Prelude to a Kiss (master take 3)
3:09
13
All the Way
2:40
14
Somewhere
3:31
15
Tune-Up (alternate take 1)
4:52
16
Tune-Up (alternate takes 2/3)
5:09
17
Tune-Up (alternate take 4)
4:43
18
Tune-Up (master take 5, re-edited)
4:49
19
Baubles Bangles and Beads (take 3)
2:24
20
Baubles Bangles and Beads (master take 4)
2:19
CD 11
1
The Trick Bag (master takes 2/5)
4:28
2
The Trick Bag (alternate take 6)
5:07
3
Days of Wine and Roses
3:50
4
Canadian Sunset
5:08
5
Dearly Beloved
4:54
6
For Heaven's Sake
4:44
7
Besame Mucho (alternate take 2)
6:28
8
Besame Mucho (master take 3)
6:32
9
Fried Pies (alternate take 1)
6:35
10
Fried Pies (master take 2)
7:43
11
The Breeze and I
4:16
12
Moanin' (master take 7)
6:22
13
Dreamsville
3:47
CD 12
1
Freddie Freeloader
5:12
2
Movin' Along
7:29
3
Mi Cosa (take 1)
3:38
4
For All We Know
4:31
5
The Way You Look Tonight (master take 1)
9:11
6
The Way You Look Tonight (alternate take 2)
5:52
7
Yesterday's Child
4:24
8
Geno
2:55
9
Dangerous
8:14
10
Lolita
5:14
11
Blues Riff (take 7)
4:16
12
Blues Riff (take 8)
8:13
13
Moanin' (alternate take 10)
4:35

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Release credits

Albert “Tootie” Heath
drums (drum set) [2.1-2, 2.4, 1.14]
Benny Barth
drums (drum set) [11]
Bobby Thomas
drums (drum set) [3-5]
Bobby Timmons
piano [6-10]
Buddy Montgomery
piano [3-4], vibraphone [7.11, 6.5]
George Brown
drums (drum set) [1, 7-8, 12]
Hank Jones
piano [11]
Jack Higgins
engineer [5-7, 10], recording [1.14, 2.1-2, 2.4, 2.6-14]
James Clay
tenor saxophone [11]
Jimmy Cobb
drums (drum set) [9.2-7, 10.1-2, 11.3, 11.6, 8.11-12]
Johnny Griffin
tenor saxophone [10.1, 8.11-12, 9.2-7]
Keter Betts
cello [11], double bass [9-10, 12]
Lex Humphries
drums (drum set) [11]
Louis Hayes
drums (drum set) [2.6-12, 4.11]
Melvin Rhyne
Hammond organ [3, 6], organ [12.1, 12.7-8, 12.12, 11.3, 11.6, 1.1-2, 1.4-5, 1.5-7, 1.10]
Milt Jackson
vibraphone [8.1-8, 8.10, 7.15-18]
Monk Montgomery
bass [5], double bass [3-4], electric bass guitar [11]
Nat Adderley
cornet [6-14]
Orrin Keepnews
producer [6.3-4, 2.1-2, 2.4, 2.6-14, 12.7, 1.5-7, 1.10, 1.14]
Paul Chambers
double bass [10.1-2, 9.2-7, 8.11-12]
Paul Parker
drums (drum set) [1-2, 4-5, 5-7, 10]
Percy Heath
double bass [2.1-2, 2.4, 2.6-8, 1.14]
Philly Joe Jones
drums (drum set) [7.15-18, 8.1-8, 8.10]
Ray Barretto
congas [11]
Ray Fowler
engineer [4]
Richard Bock
producer [11]
Richie Crabtree
piano [11]
Ron Carter
double bass [11]
Sam Jones
bass [8.2, 8.4, 7.16], cello [6-10], double bass [2.11, 2.13-14, 8.1, 8.3, 8.5-8, 8.10, 4.11, 7.15, 7.17-18]
Tommy Flanagan
piano [2.1-2, 2.4, 1.14]
Victor Feldman
piano [11]
Wes Montgomery
electric guitar [7.11, 12.1, 12.7, 2.6-14, 6.3], guitar [6.4-5, 6.11, 9.2-7, 1.1-2, 1.4-5, 1.5-7, 1.10, 1.14, 12.1, 12.8, 12.12, 8.1-8, 8.10-12, 2.1-2, 2.4, 10.1-2, 4.11, 7.15-18, 11.3, 11.6]
Wynton Kelly
piano [10.1, 7.15-18, 8.1-8, 8.10-12, 9.2-7]

Issues

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The Complete Riverside Recordings
12x CD
28 October 1996