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•me stylistic I feel that ices is too a request from Riverside: stin; tos ajazz public, whose very basic critical function is to buy their albums and shout to their friends about them. reissue, period IF Bill and Wes have even more points in common. Each has a previous LP very brashly titled by us: Everybody Digs Bill Evans and The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery. Both ve 4049 heing extremely modest men, neither was particularly comfortable with our bragging about them—but they were strictly the only ones who didn’t consider these to be accurate descrip­ tions.

(Vene And, as for further reason for our being proud, both artists began their climbs to record­ ing fame on RIVERSIDE, and both remain very much long-term members of the RIVER­ SIDE team. As for their latest albums, which are certain to bring still more laurel wreaths, they are—

Much Guitar' Ì MONTGOMERY Juruiuy at the ! SO’Much Guitar’ < 'illude Ì 'angiutn WES MONTGOMERY

SO Much Guitar* WES MONTGOMERY

SO Much Guitar! WES MONTGOMERY

Sunday at the Village Vanguard: BILL EVANS Trio The pianist’s first “live” recording finds him spurred on by possibly the hippest audience in New York, at a Vanguard Sunday session The album Evans’ remarkable bassist, the late Scott LaFaro. {RLP.176; Stereo 0.176) Have you heard RIVERSIDE’S latest hit jazz single (45 rpm) ? It’s JOHNNY GRIFFIN’S irresistible jazz version of the movie theme The Guns of Navarone (R 4506)!