Goin Out of My Head [Gold CD]

Wes Montgomery | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 22, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Gold CD
• Label: Dcc Compact Classics
• ASIN: B000000179
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #565,871 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Goin' out of My Head

2. O Morro Não Tem Vez

3. Boss City

4. Chim Chim Cheree [From Mary Poppins]

5. Naptown Blues

6. Twisted Blues

7. End of a Love Affair

8. It Was a Very Good Year

9. Golden Earrings

Editorial Reviews

Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2008. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A gold record., September 7, 2004

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Jazzcat "stef" (Genoa, Italy Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goin Out of My Head (Audio CD)

Nowadays the rarest album in the whole Montgomery catalog this album went out of print long ago. I own everything Wes recorded in his life, all the original stuff (Verve, Riverside, A&M) plus some concerts recorded in those magic 9 years Wes played professionally (1959/1968). I consider this album as one of his best, Riverside albums included. It is very rare but more than ten years ago I have been lucky enough to find a copy of this cd and to buy it. It was the "Real 24 carat gold" edition of this album (I mean real gold), a part of a very limited edition serie of some of the best Jazz albums ever (for example Soultrane from John Coltrane was included in the serie). It was very very expensive, something like 40 or 50 US dollars here in Italy, but you have to consider that it was 1990's ... (1993 to be exact) so it was VERY expensive. However I bought it. I'm happy I did it because this album's value is 2, 3, 10 times more. I'm not Joking. If I was not having it, I'd spend that money to buy it.

These nine years with Wes has been only nine years yes, but how intense they were for the jazz world and for the guitar community in particular! Wes introduced a new way not only of playing the guitar in Jazz but another incredible way of playing Jazz in general! He was an hard bopper for sure just like Sonny Rollins, Johnny Griffin, Coltrane himself, but in the end his own man with an immense personality! I consider him as one of the greatest talent Jazz gave us and probably the guitar's Charlie Parker! Wes seemed unable to do something which was not absolutly outstanding (at least until A&M records which are less beautiful but not for Wes's fault but for A&M responsibilities). He recorded in those nine years a masterpiece after another and this record is no exception! This album belongs to an happy period in Wes career. The Verve period. He was already very successful thanks to the fantastic Riverside albums he recorded and he changed record company at the time arriving in Verve where they gave him a lot of money and so they were decided to take Wes to the highest heights of success. And they did. But with quality material, with quality music. With albums like this one.

This album is an orchestrated one. The director (if my memory is not going wrong) was no less than Nelson Riddle the best "easy Jazz orchestra" director of them all! He surrounded Wes with very balanced arrangements, powerful in some points and tender in other points. A perfect velvet background for Wes's fantastic solos. Wes blows here exactly like he did in the Riverside hard bop albums simply the enviroment is richer. This is not an A&M record and Nelson Riddle is a way better director than Don Sebesky (A&M choice for director chair in Wes's albums). A&M records were commercial, radio albums. This is a Jazz album with fantastic arrangements! Big difference! Wes begins here without any hurry. The title track is pure winning sixties soul jazz. What a tone Wes had! Unbelievable! So big, so warm so surrounding! He was unreachable! Jim Hall once joked that one day in the sixties he "thought to close Wes's thumb in a car's door" ... just to tribute his talent. He was SO big!! Then the album's program goes on with some popular tunes. On some of them Wes outplay every cat in the biz. For real. Listen to what he did to "Chim Chim Cheere". Unbelievable! He transformed a simple childish tune in a Jazz anthem! Faaaaaaaantastic! Phenomenal! And a big applause to Oliver Nelson too! Then you have a couple of Wes's best originals, "Naptown blues" and "Twisted blues" and in the end some superlative standards interpretations.

Really. This album is one of the best in the entire Wes's career along with "Smoking at the half note", "Willow weep for me" and all his Riverside recordings. Wes blows here with happyness and abandon and show his talents at the fullest. There will never be another Wes. His jazz always send me out of my head!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Goin' Out of My Head, August 29, 2006

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D. James Bridges "djabr" (ayer, ma United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Goin Out of My Head (Audio CD)

A reviewer from Italy thought that Nelson Riddle did the arrangements for this LP. The correct name of the arranger for this LP would be the late, great saxophonist/arranger/composer Oliver Nelson.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best., January 21, 2011

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peggyd "mbd23" (Boston) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Goin Out of My Head (Reis) (Rstr) (Dig) (Audio CD)

This album is so good. I can't believe I only discovered recently. The playing is superb, the material even better. One of my favorites.