Released to celebrate influential jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery’s centennial, The Complete Full House Recordings brings together all the recordings from the Full House sessions with two previously unreleased performances.

The incredibly inventive concepts and style of Wes Montgomery profoundly influenced and permanently changed virtually every jazz guitarist of his day and thereafter, and a wide range of rock musicians as well.

Known for his unusual technique of plucking the strings with the side of his thumb, and for his extensive use of octaves, Montgomery played in the Lionel Hampton band in 1948–1950s and with his brothers Buddy and Monk in Mastersounds/Montgomery Brothers. Beginning in 1964 a series of recordings with string orchestra and big band accompaniments became best-sellers.

Yet it is often claimed that Wes was rarely recorded at his very best, that his club performances gave off more warmth and excitement than his studio work.

This is his only "live" album for Riverside, his first label, and it is a classic session, featuring tenor sax great Johnny Griffin and marking Montgomery’s first meeting with the acclaimed trio of Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb–then working together as Miles Davis’s rhythm section.

New liner notes by journalist Bill Milkowski.

24-bit/192kHz Mastering by Joe Tarantino from the original analog tapes.