Wes Montgomery lives...!!! and today he turns to 91..... The jazz guitarist Emily Remler once said that lurking inside her middle-class Jewish body was a black man with a fat right thumb. That black man with a fat thumb was Wes Montgomery. Born John Leslie Montgomery in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 6, 1925, Montgomery took the better part of his short life to become an overnight success. He bagain to teach himself to play guitar when he was 18 years old. Fairly unorthodox, Montgomery learned to play the guitar with his thumb as opposed to using a pick or plectrum because the time he was practising ,the neighbours were sleeping (night time), so he found this playing the most silent... Two things make Wes Montgomerys guitar playing unique. The use of that fat thumb made Montgomerys tone round and broad, with a slightly damped presentation. The second thing was his use of octaves, a characteristic that makes his music immediately recognizable . thanx Mr. John Leslie Wes Montgomery...!!!
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:36:23 +0000