Wes Montgomery
Electric Guitar Solo on
West Coast Blues

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Wes Montgomery's electric guitar solo is the opening of 2 solos on this recording, before Tommy Flanagan's closing piano statement. Spanning nine choruses of the 12-bar Blues form at a medium-up 154 BPM with a waltz feel in B♭, the solo runs approximately 4:13. Montgomery's nine-chorus guitar solo at 154 beats per minute is among his most inspired improvisations, the interaction between the blues vocabulary and the waltz rhythm generating musical ideas that neither context alone would produce. Wes Montgomery was 36 to 37 years old at the time of this 1960 recording.

Wes Montgomery was 36 to 37 years old at the time.