Until recently jazz fans could only imagine what it would have been like to hear Montgomery in his pre-fame years, but Resonance Records has unearthed and released several extensively-detailed CDs and LPs that document that vibrant period, as well as the era that followed several are featured on this program. It took awhile for his distinctive approach to develop, and he was also financially responsible for a large family, working day jobs to pay the bills and then playing in the clubs of "Naptown," as the city was known, into the wee small hours of the morning. But Montgomery had been around for years, briefly going out on the road with Lionel Hampton‘s big band and playing frequently around Indianapolis with his brothers Buddy and Monk. Wes Montgomery seemingly burst out of nowhere onto the national jazz scene at the beginning of the 1960s, dazzling fans and fellow musicians with his warm and bluesy, melodically-inventive sound, driven by a unique approach of using his thumb instead of a pick to play, and constructing his solos in a pattern of single notes to octaves to full chords, giving them a thickening intensity.
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