Aye, I thought I knew that face!
Knowing the face will not do - gotta know the movie!
Some recently played ones:
Hardman didn't have many chances to really shine, and he makes very good use of it on his Savoy album ... there's a jazz messengers mood to it and he seems to channel his successor in that group, Lee Morgan, here and there, but this does not diminish the fun a bit. Sonny Red is a musician I'm quite ambiguous about, but I love his Chicago album (Red-Jordan-Timmons, with Wilbur Ware and Dannie Richmond completing the line-up) as well as his seventies album on Mainstream (currently available in Japan, carpe diem!) - anyway, Red is excellent here as well, and so is pianist Ronnie Mathews, who really would deserve to be much better known!
The Mastersounds disc has the group without their most famous sidekick, brother Wes Montgomery on guitar ... this is a fine, groovy, tightly-knit band, the album far from being a masterpieces, but nonetheless quite enjoyable. Monk Montgomery's electric bass gives it a sound that's very different from MJQ, which is a whole different animal anyway, although they share their instrumentation.
