AVID Jazz continues its Four Classic Album series with a remastered 2CD second release of Wes Montgomery, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. "The Montgomery Brothers: The Montgomery Brothers in Canada" (1961); "Wes Montgomery: So Much Guitar!" (1961); "Milt Jackson & Wes Montgomery: Bags Meets Wes!" (1961) and "Wes Montgomery: Full House" (1962). AVID is pleased to present a long overdue second release from legendary jazz guitar great Wes Montgomery. On this set you'll find Wes joined by his brothers Buddy and Monk on the hard-to-find "live" classic "The Montgomery Brothers In Canada" as well as a wonderful pairing of Wes with Milt Jackson on "Bags Meets Wes!", and then there are a couple of albums recorded under his own name, the brilliant "So Much Guitar!" and the equally brilliant live set "Full House". The original sales notes for our first Montgomery set (AMSC1027) describe how label owner Orrin Keepnews was urged by Cannonball Adderley and a review by composer, musician and critic Gunther Schuller to acquire an "extraordinarily spectacular... unbearably exciting" young guitarist named Wes Montgomery. Listen for yourself and you'll find that their enthusiasm was well founded! We also discovered that Wes' self-taught style had much in common with that of John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, for instead of the flowing style of a Charlie Christian, his style was of a pounding, fierce intensity that attacked the instrument in the same way that the two saxophonists attacked their horns. On our four tracks, Wes is in great company: alongside his two brothers on the "Canada" set is the great pianist Hank Jones on "So Much Guitar", along with bassist Ron Carter, Lex Humphries on drums and Ray Barretto providing an extra percussive punch! Milt Jackson can of course be heard on "Bags Meets Wes", along with Wynton Kelly, Sam Jones on bass and the great "Philly" Joe Jones on skins. And finally, for Full House's live set, we have the driving tenor sax of Johnny Griffin backed by three guys from Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue lineup, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. Under the pressure of not being John Coltrane, Griffin does a great job of pushing the music forward!!! To use a quote from respected music journalist Ralph J. Gleason.... "Make no mistake, Wes Montgomery is the best thing to happen to the guitar since Charlie Christian," from a "phenomenal and drastically original guitarist" who was nearly uprooted from domestic bliss (and the raising of six children!) by Cannonball Adderley, who came through his hometown of Indianapolis. By the end of 1960, Wes Montgomery had (seemingly, if reluctantly) firmly established himself on the jazz scene and was now on the move in the truest sense of the word.