Smokin' at the Half Note

Smokin' at the Half Note
Live album / studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1965[1]
RecordedJune 1965 and September 22, 1965
VenueThe Half Note Club (recording in June)
GenreJazz
Length40:58
LabelVerve
ProducerCreed Taylor
Wes Montgomery chronology
Bumpin'
(1965)
Smokin' at the Half Note
(1965)
Smokin' Guitar
(1965)
Wynton Kelly chronology
Undiluted
(1965)
Smokin' at the Half Note
(1965)
Blues on Purpose
(1965)

Smokin' at the Half Note is an album by Wes Montgomery and the Wynton Kelly Trio that was released in 1965. It was recorded live in June 1965 at the Half Note Club in New York City and September 22, 1965 at Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The album combines guitarist Montgomery with the Miles Davis rhythm section from 1959–1963 of Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb. The album's versions of "Unit 7" and "Four on Six" have helped to establish these pieces as jazz standards.

  1. ^ "Billboard". November 27, 1965.