Wes Montgomery was unquestionably the most significant jazz guitarist to emerge during the 1960s.

During the 1970s and 1980s he had, like Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt before him, become a major influence on other guitar players. Elements of his style are discernable in many of today's finest players. Although many musicians acknowledge that Wes was one of the finest guitar players of the 20th Century (as a cursory glance at the chapter Impressions will confirm) there was until the publication of the first edition of this book, a lack of detailed biographical and analytical material. Wes Montgomery did not feel that such things were really important and preferred to get on with playing. He had, however, a healthy curiosity about music and would have relished a similar book, had one been available then, about his own first and lasting idol Charlie Christian.

The author hopes that this book will be widely read and enjoyed by guitarists and jazz enthusiasts everywhere and that Wes' achievements, so often narrowly categorized as the development of octave playing, will be more fully understood and appreciated. First published in 1985 Adrian Ingram has now comprehensively updated, in this second edition, the original discography and appendixes to include every track commercially released on LP and CD, film footage on VHS and DVD, and a comprehensive listing of the published transcription books of Wes Montgomery’s solos.