Wes Montgomery Vintage Jazz Collection Jazz 625 - Giants of the Golden Age of Jazz Wes Montgomery Subtitled VHS Videotape Format: VHS Release Date: November 2, 1994 Domestic/Import: Domestic A master of jazz guitar who was active from the 1950s to the 1960s. He swept the world with his unique playing style of plucking strings with his thumb (such as octave playing and chord playing). With his warm tone and melodic sense, he popularized jazz guitar to a wider audience. His album "Smokin' at the Half Note" ('65) is considered his masterpiece, and he is acclaimed as one of the representative guitarists of the golden age of jazz.