DCC GOLD CD GZS-1048: Wes Montgomery – Goin' Out Of My Head - 1993 USA SEALED

Description: ****Welcome to our listing, thanks very much for looking!****Shipping cost is only an estimate - it depends on the actual weight and size of the package as well as the service required. We do not profit from shipping costs, so if we overcharge, we will refund the difference back to you. We will combine shipping for multiple items purchased.Background - FACTORY SEALED, from 1993....DCC products are all out of print. The company was well known for their outstanding sound and music on both the CD and LP formats. John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was an American jazz guitarist. He is widely considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Grant Green, Pat Martino, George Benson, Russell Malone, Emily Remler, Kenny Burrell, Pat Metheny, Steve Howe, and Jimi Hendrix. According to jazz guitar educator Wolf Marshall, Montgomery often approached solos in a three-tiered manner: He would begin a repeating progression with single note lines, derived from scales or modes; after a fitting number of sequences, he would play octaves for a few more sequences, finally culminating with block chords. He used mostly superimposed triads and arpeggios as the main source for his soloing ideas and sounds. The use of octaves (playing the same note on two strings one octave apart) for which he is widely known, became known as "the Naptown Sound". Montgomery was also an excellent "single-line" or "single-note" player, and was very influential in the use of block chords in his solos. His playing on the jazz standard "Lover Man" is an example of his single-note, octave- and block-chord soloing. ("Lover Man" appears on the Fantasy album The Montgomery Brothers.) Instead of using a guitar pick, Montgomery plucked the strings with the fleshy part of his thumb, using downstrokes for single notes and a combination of upstrokes and downstrokes for chords and octaves. Montgomery developed this technique not for technical reasons but for his wife. He worked long hours as a machinist before his career began and practiced late at night while his wife was sleeping. He played with his thumb so that his playing would be softer and not wake her. This technique enabled him to get a mellow, expressive tone from his guitar. George Benson, in the liner notes of the Ultimate Wes Montgomery album, wrote, "Wes had a corn on his thumb, which gave his sound that point. He would get one sound for the soft parts, and then that point by using the corn. That's why no one will ever match Wes. And his thumb was double-jointed. He could bend it all the way back to touch his wrist, which he would do to shock people.” He generally played a Gibson L-5CES guitar. In his later years he played one of two guitars that Gibson custom made for him. In his early years, Montgomery had a tube amp, often a Fender. In his later years, he played a solid state Standel amp with a 15-inch (380 mm) speaker. Goin' Out of My Head is the fifteenth album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1965. It reached number 7 on the Billboard R&B chart. At the 9th Grammy Awards Goin' Out of My Head won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group. Goin' Out of My Head was Montgomery's third album in 1965 and his first with sales reaching near one million. It was producer Creed Taylor's idea that Montgomery should do a cover of the title song, a 1964 hit by Little Anthony and the Imperials. At the time Taylor brought the song to Montgomery, he was playing at the Half Note Club in New York City with the Wynton Kelly Trio—sessions that appeared on his acclaimed 1965 release Smokin' at the Half Note. Taylor said in a later interview: "If you take away the R&B performance and just look at that song, it's an absolutely marvelous song to improvise on. For that time, it had sophisticated changes and the whole structure was great. I was thinking, 'This would be perfect for Wes Montgomery. But how am I going to overcome the fact that here's Wes and his background? He'd be about the last person to listen to Little Anthony and the Imperials.” Jazz writer Josef Woodard called the release "Commercial firepower and Grammy-winning accessibility notwithstanding, it's a classic big-band album, with smart charts by Nelson and stolen moments of Montgomery's guitar grandeur and romantic truth scattered throughout. The title track that made so much commercial and critical noise is all of 2:12 in duration, but the album also features plenty of jazz fiber..." At the 9th Grammy Awards Goin' Out of My Head won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group. In his liner notes, Orrin Keepnews, Wes Montgomery's first producer and former boss at the Riverside label states that it was arranger Oliver Nelson's goal with GOIN' OUT OF MY HEAD to present Montgomery's guitar as a melody instrument, rather than as a soloist. This certainly happens on the ballads that make up at least half this set. It's probably just as well that doing so finally sold some records and gave the guitar-playing father of six a more solid income for the last few years of his life.However, most Montgomery aficionados still usually just want to hear him blow. And there's some solid jazz to be found here. Not surprisingly, it happens the most on the Montgomery originals "Boss City," Naptown Blues," and "Twisted Blues," but Montgomery also gets into it for real with the rhythm section on "Chim Chim Cheree"; after the orchestrations are over, he careens off Grady Tate's insistent drumming with exuberance and abandon.This listing is for a long out of print and very rare audiophile GOLD CD title - a FACTORY SEALED and assumed to be in MINT overall condition 24kt GOLD CD set PRESSED and ISSUED by DCC of a highly collectible title from the defunct DCC catalog - a superb title featuring - Wes Montgomery Gold CD Title - Goin' Out Of My Head Track Listing - 1. Goin' Out Of My Head - Written-By – Bobby Weinstein, Teddy Randazzo - 2:17 2. O Morro (Once I Lived) - Written-By – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius De Moraes - 4:48 3. Boss City - Written-By – Wes Montgomery - 3:47 4. Chim Chim Cheree - Written-By – Richard B. Sherman, Robert M. Sherman - 4:52 5. Naptown Blues - Written-By – Wes Montgomery - 3:10 6. Twisted Blues - Written-By – Wes Montgomery - 4:16 7. End Of A Love Affair - Written-By – Edward C. Redding - 3:45 8. It Was A Very Good Year - Written-By – Ervin Drake - 3:43 9. Gold Earrings - Written-By – Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Victor Young - 5:14Credits, Performers, Other Information - • Arranged By, Conductor – Oliver Nelson • Bass – George Duvivier • Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Phil Woods • Clarinet, Flute, English Horn, Oboe, Piccolo Flute, Tenor Saxophone – Romeo Penque • Clarinet, Flute, Piccolo Flute, Alto Saxophone – Jerry Dodgion • Clarinet, Flute, Saxophone – Bob Ashton • Congas – Candido • Drums – Grady Tate, Sol Gubin • Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder • Flute, Clarinet, Flute [Alto], Baritone Saxophone – Danny Bank • Guitar – Wes Montgomery • Other [Prepared For Compact Disc By] – Richard Seidel • Piano – Herbie Hancock, Roger Kellaway • Producer – Creed Taylor • Remastered By – Dennis Drake, Steve Hoffman • Trombone – Danny Moore, Jimmy Cleveland, Quentin Jackson, Tony Studd, Wayne Andre • Trumpet – Donald Byrd, Ernie Royal, Joe Newman • Gold CD Audiophile • Recorded December 7,8 and 22, 1965 at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. • Total time: 35:56 • Barcode: 010963104820 The Gold CD is from the ultra-rare DCC series of audiophile, 24kt. GOLD CDs (long out of print). Gold CD re-mastered by Steve Hoffman 24kt. GOLD CD manufactured in the USA or Japan - can't tell for certain until the item has been opened and the CD is physically checked. Jewel Case IS the original flip up type This item DOES come with the paper outer slip cover - it is complete. The original LP was issued on the VERVE record label, in 1965 The DCC Gold CD set was issued in 1993 Gold CD catalog # GZS 1048 The Gold CD, JEWEL CASE AND INSERTS are all assumed to be in MINT overall condition as this CD is actually FACTORY SEALED! This CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).Do not let this rarity slip by!

Price: 249.99 CAD

Location: Toronto, Ontario

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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

CD Grading: Mint (M)

Number of Discs: 1

Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard with Paper Slipcover

Custom Bundle: No

Color: Gold

Case Condition: Mint (M)

MPN: DCC GOLD CD GZS-1048

Inlay Condition: Mint (M)

Catalog Number: GZS-1048

Modified Item: No

Edition: GOLD CD, Collector's Edition, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition

Type: Album

Era: 1990s

Instrument: Guitar

Features: Audiophile Collectible, LONG Out of Print, Pictures are of the actual item, Enhanced CD, COMPLETE - NOTHING MISSING, Factory SEALED, Gold CD made in the USA (or JAPAN), Limited Edition, Reissue, Special Edition, 24k Gold Disc, Import, Remastered, Sealed, Gold CD issued in 1993

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Artist: Wes Montgomery

Record Label: DCC Compact Classics

Format: CD

Release Year: 1993

Style: Guitar

Release Title: Goin' Out of My Head

Genre: Guitar, Jazz