East to Wes
| East to Wes | ||||
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| Released | May 1988 | |||
| Recorded | May 1988 | |||
| Studio | Penny Lane Studios, New York | |||
| Genre | Jazz, hard bop | |||
| Length | 50:19 | |||
| Label | Concord Jazz | |||
| Producer | Carl E. Jefferson | |||
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East to Wes is a studio album by the jazz guitarist Emily Remler. She was accompanied by the pianist Hank Jones, who had played on Firefly (1981), her first record, the double bass player Buster Williams and the drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith.
The recording was Remler's tribute to Wes Montgomery. For the liner notes, Nat Hentoff wrote that Remler said about her composition "East to Wes" that it was an "impression of the earlier bossa nova stuff he did. Wes was one of the greater improvisers I ever heard. His feeling was happy, his soul was beautiful."