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Previously unreleased airshots add further insight into the kind of music first heard on the aptly named Smokin' At The Half Note

An expanded reissue of the late guitarist Wes Montgomerys classic 1962 live album is a sheer delight, complete with stunning restored sound quality.

Everyones got a music lover on their holiday shopping list. Heres a selection of gems on CD and paper that they just might love.

Roger Kaufman’s Speaking of Music Series returns to The Westport Library with a jazz focus, Nov. 11.

Craft Recordings is set to release an expanded edition of Wes Montgomery’s classic 1962 album Full House, with numerous outtakes and alternates.

Craft Recordings honors the inimitable Wes Montgomery on his centennial with an expanded edition of his classic 1962 LP, Full House. Captured at Berkeley, CA’s Tsubo coffee house, the album marks the influential jazz guitarist’s sole live session for Riverside Records and features stellar performances by all, including tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Jimmy Cobb.

Comprehensive chronicle adds new footage of 'the greatest guitarist you never heard', one perhaps isolated by his eclecticism and virtuosity

By Mike Selby

At the Library

The teenage guitarist shows off some fretboard pyrotechnics in this rare clip of his pre-Red Hot Chili Peppers band, IKE