New (Unreleased) Studio + Live Wes Montgomery in March!

[robertoart]

I haven't read the liner notes yet, but remember seeing a quote related to this release where Buddy or Monk revealed Wes was learning guitar from a young age on a 4 string tenor guitar. This is counter to the 'orthodox' Wes histories, that say he started playing around 19y/o. The brothers also apparently say that Wes was the one out front in their musical education, rather than what I also believed, that Wes's brothers were the ones that nurtured his playing? So I thought a lot of potted Wes Montgomery histories might need re-writing.

[Rooster_Ties]

I posted this in another thread some time ago (which links back to another thread where it was first brought up)...

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What ever happened to this??

Does anybody know what specific "material by Andrew Hill and Wes Montgomery" was being readied??

This is from the Reissues forum:

I direct you to a recent interview w/ Cuscuna (http://www.openskyjazz.com/blog/?m=200905):

"The Blue Note Rudy Van Gelder series will continue to revisit more Blue Note classics. But the Blue Note vault is tapped out of releasable unissued material. That’s why we started what we call internally the discovery series, looking to outside sources for new discoveries. And we hit with a megaton bang starting it off with the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall. Charles Mingus At Cornell, and Horace Silver at Newport 1958 followed. We have a killer Freddie Hubbard album Without a Song - Live in Europe coming in June. Freddie was thrilled with this music - he told me he thought it was some of his best playing ever captured on tape. He was going to do a lot of press for it but alas… We are working on material by Andrew Hill and Wes Montgomery next."

Hint, hint, hint...

Whatever became of the "Discovery" series??

Anybody know what Andrew Hill and/or Wes Montgomery recordings were being prepared for release, and is any of that still in the pipeline?

FWIW, Freddie's "Without a Song" came out in June '09.

There have been no "vault" releases from Blue Note in three years, due to some EMI decision that Cuscuna can't do anything about. But since the Montgomery now is coming out on Resonance with Cuscuna's involvement, it is probable that the Hill will follow later.

So, what IS the Hill?? When is it from?? Who was in the band??

I can wait to hear the actual recording (since I have no choice), but it would be nice to at least know what we're waiting for.