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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER
SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1968
Guitarist Wes Montgomery Buried Tuesday
Believe Me.. When I Tell You
By BOB WOMACK SR.
DUE TO THE off and on hot weather that we are now having and the fact that many people are on their vacations here and over the nation. The music business is almost at a stand-still except for the crews who are currently on location gigs. Many social clubs have disbanded for the summer months. Therefore cancelling many ‘live* engagements until the fall live’ engagements until the Fall Dancing Season thus putting many Cats out of work. The one-niters are a thing of the past during this time. However, come September the work situation will bet better. , La Von^Kemp, veteran bandleader is now rehearsing a large orchestra plus a group of singers during the summer. He plans big happenings in the very near future. Some of thq sidemen included in this new aggregation are: Jimmy Nick; Merrill Laswell, trumpets; Marion Laswell, drums and Earl Pash, bass. Kemp is now booking advance jobs. For other information, dig these Theatrical Pages. We have also been advised that he will continue to use his small combp on engagements too. Naptown’s own Jay Jay Johnson, trombonist is featured on a new tape reel equivalent to two stereo albums called “The Jazz Giants, “(RCA-Victor,TP. (3-5007). Other stars featured on this tape for your car are: Paul Desmond; Sonny Rollins; Charles Mingus; Earl “Fatha” Hines; Wild Bill Davis; Johnny Hodges and Gerry Mulligan. Fan Clubs A Boon: . .Civic leaders all over the country are beginning to realize the potency of fan clubs organized for recording stars. City fathers are calling on the artists to use their influence with their teenage fan clubbers. Some of the diskers have as many as 300,000 members in their various clubs which they supply with pictures, buttons, membership cards and newsletters. Many communities report success in combatting JUVENILE DELINQUENCY and
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Musical world mourns death of Wes Montgomery By BOB WOMACK £>R.
other problems by enlisting the aid of the disk artists. LASWELL Trio made their debut at the Grand Opening of Pete’s Blue Room, 2905 Central Ave. on last Frl. Evening. The eroup will be featured everv Fri. and Sat. Nites. Hours: 9:30 p.m. til 1:30 a.m. Be sure to dig them in person...That’s Where The Action Will Be... GEORGIA SMILEY of the House-Keeping Dept., Coleman Hospital is currently on her vacation. We understand that Georgia is doing what she loves to do best-Fishing and more fishing. Many of her friends are wondering if she has caught the big ones? .. FRANK COE one of the leading barbers with a shop located at 10th. and West Streets has informed the Press that he and his friends enjoy reading the column very much ... Thanks, a lot, we do out best in obtaining the news for the fans. Did you know that Atty. ROBERT G. MANN' is the nephew of the internationallyknown singer, Roland Hayes? ..“Buddy,” as he is called by his many friends is one of the •est young lawyers in the Middlewest. We look for him The Usher Board of the Piligrim Baptist Church will have their annual Tea on this Sunday (June 23.) in the church auditorium. Hours: 3:30 p.m. til 7 p.m. Sister Alice Johnston is the President of the Board and the Rev. S.R. Shields,Pastor. Names In The News: . .The AL WALTON Trio along with the famous King and Mary entertainment duo continues to appear before (SRO) Standing-Room-Only Crowds at the Town & Country Lounge.. .CHARLES PEOPLES, singsation and music-writer is still confined in General Hospital. He would like to hear from his many friends. Call him direct at 630-6268 or write to Ward-D-529 The new DICKIE to be appointed to some high office after the November election. Mann is well regarded in TURN TO PAGE 11
The musical world both locally and internationally were shocked upon learning of the recent death of Wes Montgomery, 45, the hometown boy who became famous in the ‘Big Time’ on the guitar. He was considered by many music critics as the best jazz guitarist
WES MONTGOMERY in the land. Wes was pronounced dead on arrival at the Methodist Hospital on last Saturday Morning at 10:20 a.m. Death was attributed to a heart attack he suffered at his Indianapolis
home.
He had just completed a road tour with his brothers,
the last seven years and won similar honors in the Playboy Poll for the last six years.He also won the 1966 Grammy award for “Best Instrumental Jazz Performance” for his al-bum-“Goin Out of My Head,” the number also made first place in the Billboard Magazine record charts. “Mr. Guitar,” was named by the Record World Magazine as the “1967 Jazz Man of The Year.” Many of his prominent hits are-“Windy,” “Bumpin' on Sunset,” “California Dreamln’ and his most recent-“A Day In the Life” currently in its 37th. consecutive week as the best selling jazz album. Wes was a self-taught musician. He never did learn to read music. But had a unique style of his own which he obtained in jam sessions here in town at many of the nite spots of that era namely the 440, Cotton Club, George’s Bar and Orchid Room, Sunset Terrace Ballroom, Club Udell and other local clubs. He received his big chance at musical stardom In 1959 when he made two albums, one with his brothers. The Down Beat Magazine Staff dug the records and Montgomery became^ the 1960s “New Star” on guitar in that Magazine’s International Critics Poll. Since that time, my Ol’ friend has never looked back. Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Puritan
Wes Montgomery self taught “King of the Guitar 1
Bv Walter Burrell
Monk, bass, and Buddy, vibes Baptist Church with burial in the
and piano who were among the sidemen in his jazz quintet. The crew last played at Caesar's Forum at Phoenix. He appeared here on May 22, in concert at the State Fairgrounds
Coliseum.
Montgomery has won many national awards including the Down Beat Musicians’ Magazine Poll as the best guitarist in modern jazz for five of
THE GUITAR IS SILENT—Wes Montgomery, who strummed the guitar with his fingers instead of a cap, was buried here Tuesday in New Crown Cemetery . . . thus writing finis to a brilliant career that took him to the top as America's No. 1 guitarist. .Some of the greats in the musical world attended his funeral rites.
Once upon a tim&- in 1943, to be exact-an enthusiastic 19-year-old welder went out and bought a shiny new eletric guitar, an amplifier, a year's supply of guitar picks and extra strings, and drove his Indianapolis neighbors to distraction as he set out to teach himself to play. Little did Wes Montgomery know that he'd not only master the instrument, but go on to become the king of the jazz guitar. However, behind the genius audiences thrill to in nightclubs and concert halls lies the stra-ight-forward simplicity and the warm personality of a selftaught and self-made man. as this writer discovered recently when I talked with Wes at his Hollywood apartment. On a lazy Calif, afternoon he revealed an insight into the man behind the guitar and the footlights. “I was 19, had just gotten married and was working as a welder in Indianapolis when I decided to buy a guitar,” recalls Wes, ;“I’d always admired the sounds it made and I figured it wouldn’t be too hard to learn to play it. Besides, I had several friends who picked away at it. “What did mv wife think of the idea? Well, to say the least,she didn’t quite approveand she liked it less as time wore on. But I figured this way: I wanted the guitar for my own amusement; to relax with then
I came home after work. When I thought I’d gotten my money’s worth for the day, I simply put it in the corner. “As it turned out, my friends were too busy to teach me any TURN TO PAGE 11
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