Wes Montgomery and Robben Ford Provide a Day of Blues and Jazz
So yesterday’s random numbers were 3 and 5. Those numbers led me to one blues album from Robben Ford and the Blue Line and a jazz album from Wes Montgomery. The Robben Ford album is his 1995 release Handful of Blues. The Wes Montgomery album was Movin’ Wes, released in 1964 on the Verve label. Robben Ford -Handful of Blues Robben Ford is one of the artists I like when I hear his music but I tend not to search out his music. Part of the reason is I really didnt care for a few of his more recent albums. Therefore, I probably haven’t given his current albums a good listen. Bottom line , I just havent been listening to his music much anymore. Although, after listening to Handful of Blues I may need to listen to his more recent albums again. Rignt now I am listening to Lost in Paris Blues Band. It sounds pretty good to me. Anyway let’s get back to Handful of Blues. Listening to the album I thought it sounded more bluesy than some of the albums I remember. Then I read this at All Music from Stephen Thomas Erlewine…. On Handful of Blues, Robben Ford strips his sound back to the basics, recording a set of blues with only a bassist and a drummer. The group runs through a handful of standards, including “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” and “I Just Want to Make Love to You,” and a number of made-to-order origin So the bottmline is listening…
