Cedric West Guitar Quartet - West Meets East: full album

This superb (mono) jazz guitar album first published in 1964 ('recorded in '63) features the remarkably smooth, disciplined and tasteful electric guitar playing and arranging skills of the legendary Cedric West and his Guitar Quartet. Shortly to be followed by another remarkable (stereo) album "Bach Goes West",    • The Cedric West Guitar Quartet: "Bach Goes...   ... the personnel on this recording is as follows:

Cedric West - Gtr
Dick Abel - Gtr
Len Argent - Gtr
Laurie Wise - Gtr
Ken O'Donnell - Bass
Ronnie Lord - Drums

Arrangements are by Cedric West...a Lansdowne Series recording.

Much is and has been written about Cedric West and his exceptional talent - he has been the inspiration for a number of leading players and remains - certainly to me, one of the finest exponents of delicate, precise, tasteful and enjoyable guitar music EVER. The personnel on the recording is listed below and is taken from the back cover of the original vinyl L.P.

N.B: No small measure of credit is due to the 'accompanying' musicians (bass and drums) who are supremely gifted at their task of enhancing the lead players with a restraint and aplomb regrettably absent from so many instrumental recordings of today.

Here is an excellent article on Cedric, for those wishing to know more - https://gypsyjazzuk.wordpress.com/36-...

The audio and artwork for this project generously and kindly provided by Cedric's daughter Jenny, without whose help and co-operation this, and the "Bach Goes West" album would perhaps otherwise remain fondly in the record collections of devoted afficionados alone.

All and any copyrights gratefully acknowledged. I do not own the copyright to any of this music ('though I have created the visual entirely from scratch) and I seek to make no money from it's distribution/availability here on YouTube.