Wes Montgomery-A Dynamic New Sound

This is Wes's 1959 debut album with Riverside.  It's a organ trio with a serverly under-rated organist named Melvin Rhyne.---the two never cross each other up, either when trading off on solos, or working ensemble passages, or playing call-and-response, and they communicate that ease to whichever drummers happen to be working with them at the time. The absolute best performances of the Wes Mongtomery Trio are textbook exercises in how to put the music first and not step on each other's feet doing it. Even Montgomery himself would never be able to duplicate the lazy, hazy feeling that pervades this album. Not that he had to, for this album is just perfect as it is and he managed to capture an entirely new variety of atmospheres on his subsequent albums. This one may be my personal favourite though.