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...time is 1943. Scene: the 440 Club in Indianapolis. A chunky, exuberant 20-year-old named Wes Montgomery sits on the bandstand. Inspired by the recordings of the great jazz guitarist Charlie Christian ("they burned my ears"), he has bought a guitar with his day-laborer's wages and learned Christian's solos by rote. Now, in his first professional appearance, he plays them through faultlessly...
...Wes plays the same solos through again, note for note. They are all that he has learned so far. Except for them, he can barely pick out a scale...
...WES MONTGOMERY: A DAY IN THE LIFE (A & M). Long a top jazz guitarist, Montgomery acquired new status and a wider audience with his first jazz-pop success, California Dreaming. Once more, with arrangements by . Don Sebesky, Wes has toned down his improvisations and tuned up a fleet of strings to accompany his standard rhythm section of piano, bass and drums. The result is a polished, gently swinging kind of music with a particularly polite but still identifiable Montgomery guitar...
...whom the Executive Committee would like to see join the Metropolitan Council Volunteer Pool. Thus far, however, no decision has been reached regarding the continuation or deailed structure of the other parts of the Tutors Committee program--tutoring in Settlement Houses, other community centers, and Companion ("Big Brother") tutoring. Wes Profit President...
...Wes Profit '69 of Winthrop House and Los Angeles, Calif., will serve as President beginning March 1, 1968. Jonathan Ritvo '69, of Dunster House and Woodbridge, Conn., will be the new vice-president...