Wes Montgomery TV Interview 1968

[Ron Thorne]

With thanks to Marc "JazzWax" Myers for this rare video:

People in Jazz was a TV show that aired briefly in 1967 and '68 in Detroit and was hosted by Jim Rockwell, a local jazz radio disc jockey on WABX-FM. In early 1968, shortly before Wes Montgomery's death in June from a fatal heart attack, the guitarist appeared on Rockwell's TV show for a relaxed and revealing interview and to play two songs with his brothers—Buddy Montgomery (p) and Monk Montgomery (b). The drummer and conga player are unknown. The group performed Windy and California Nights—easily the finest Montgomery recording of this Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Liebling song written for Lesley Gore, who recorded it in 1967. - Marc Myers





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