The Quarantined Jazz Voyager

Willow Weep for Me is a jazz album recorded in 1965 by guitarist Wes Montgomery and was posthumously released in 1969. The arranger and conductor on the session was Claus Ogerman.

The album reached number 12 on the Billboard Jazz album chart in 1969. At the 1970 Grammy Awards Willow Weep for Me won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group.

After Montgomery’s death in 1968, Verve Records used recordings from the sessions that produced Smokin’ at the Half Note and the label hired arranger Claus Ogerman to write string and brass arrangements for “Willow Weep for Me”, “Portrait of Jennie,” “Oh! You Crazy Moon,” and “Misty.” Subsequent reissues erased the new backing arrangements.

1. Willow Weep for Me (Ann Ronell) – 7:42
2. Impressions (John Coltrane) – 5:01
3. Portrait of Jenny (Burdge, Robinson) – 2:45
4. The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (Rodgers, Hammerstein II) – 5:20
5. Oh, You Crazy Moon (Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 5:27
6. Four on Six (Wes Montgomery) – 9:29
7. Misty (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) – 6:45

• Wes Montgomery – guitar
• Wynton Kelly – piano
• Paul Chambers – bass
• Jimmy Cobb – drums

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