Gene Ammons - Angel Eyes (1962)

Artists: Gene Ammons with Frank Wess and Art Taylor
Album: Angel Eyes
Recording Date: Jun 17, 1960-Sep 25, 1962
Release Date: Jun 17, 1960
Label: Prestige
Genre: Jazz; Style: Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop
Format: mp3, bitrate: mp3, 320 Kbps
Time: 36:25
Size: 85 Mb (rapidshare)

В этот диск вошли две сессии Gene Ammons записанные в 1960 и 1962 годах. Хороший альбом, 4 звезды от AMG, Scott Yanow рекомендует.
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Tracks:
1. Gettin' Around
2. Blue Room
3. You Got To My Head
4. Angel Eyes
5. Water Jug
6. It's The Talk Of The Town

Personnel:
Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone);
Frank Wess (tenor saxophone, flute);
Mal Waldron (piano);
Johnny "Hammond" Smith (organ);
Doug Watkins, Wendell Marshall (bass);
Arthur Taylor, Ed Thigpen (drums).

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on June 17, 1960 and September 5, 1962.
Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (1998, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).

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Review:
Gene Ammons was one of the great tenor saxophone stylists of jazz. His big, breathy, swaggering and slightly rough tone, rich with more than just a hint of blues and R&B, was popular with both big band jazz and soul-jazz audiences through the funk/fusion era. Ammons was also an influence on a couple of generations of R&B players, including King Curtis, Big Jay McNeely and Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson.
ANGEL EYES consists of two sessions from 1960 and 1962, where Ammons works out on some jazz standards, accompanied by such talents as Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Art Taylor, and Mal Waldron. On the tunes featuring organ ("Blue Room"), the music is rooted firmly in the relaxed, smoky, funky soul-jazz sound of Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff and Joey DeFrancesco. On the piano ballads, Ammons and company favor a sentimental, straight-ahead approach in the Dexter Gordon/Sonny Rollins/Ben Webster tradition. ANGEL EYES is an ideal way to experience jazz at a crossroads in the early '60s, as well as Ammons in peak form.
cduniverse.com

Review II:
Music from two different occasions are combined on this CD reissue. The four songs from 1960 match the great tenor Gene Ammons with Frank Wess (doubling on flute and tenor), organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith, bassist Doug Watkins, and drummer Art Taylor. Wess, one of jazz's great flutists, battles Ammons on tenor to a draw on "Water Jug," while the leader takes "Angel Eyes" as his memorable feature. In addition, Ammons is heard in 1962 with pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Wendell Marshall, and drummer Ed Thigpen playing with great warmth on the ballads "You Go to My Head" and "It's the Talk of the Town." The latter set was one of Ammons' final ones before serving a long prison sentence (drug-related), yet his interpretations are full of optimism. Recommended.
Scott Yanow, AMG


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