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Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux (1999)

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Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux (1999)

Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux (1999)
Jazz | EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG | mp3@320 | 309 MB. & 125 MB.
400dpi. Complete Scans (JPG) included | WinRar, 3% recovery
Audio CD (1999) | Label: Prestige/OJC | Catalog# 00025218702324 | 46:24 min.

Review by Scott Yanow ~allmusic.com
Ammons, whose studio recordings of the period were somewhat commercial, is heard in excellent form playing a blues and three standards with the backing of a fine rhythm section: Hampton Hawes (who unfortunately sticks to electric piano), electric bassist Bob Cranshaw, drummer Kenny Clarke and Kenneth Nash on congas. Best of all is a 17-minute blues on which Ammons welcomes fellow tenor Dexter Gordon, cornetist Nat Adderley and altoist Cannonball Adderley; the four horns all get to trade off with each other. This is one of the better late-period Gene Ammons records.
Tracklist:
01. Yardbird Suite (7:31)
02. Since I Fell for You (8:27)
03. New Sonny's Blues (7:36)
04. Sophisticated Lady (5:44)
05. 'Treuz Bleu (17:06)

Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux (1999)

Personnel:
Gene Ammons - tenor saxophone
Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone (on #5 only)
Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone (on #5 only)
Nat Adderley - cornet (on #5 only)
Hampton Hawes - electric piano
Bob Cranshaw - electric bass
Kenny Clarke - drums
Kenneth Nash - congas

~wikipedia
Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – July 23, 1974) also known as "The Boss," was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, and the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons.

Biography
Ammons began to gain recognition when he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax band in 1943, at the age of 18. He became a member of the Billy Eckstine and Woody Herman bands in 1944 and 1949 respectively, and then in 1950 formed a duet with Sonny Stitt. His later career was interrupted by two prison sentences for narcotics possession, the first from 1958 to 1960, the second from 1962 to 1969. He recorded as a leader for Mercury (1947-1949), Aristocrat (1948-1950), Chess (1950-1951), Prestige (1950-1952), Decca (1952), and United (1952-1953). For the rest of his career, he was affiliated with Prestige.

Ammons and Von Freeman were the founders of the Chicago School of tenor saxophone. His style of playing showed influences from Lester Young as well as Ben Webster. These artists had helped develop the sound of the tenor saxophone to higher levels of expressiveness. Ammons, together with Dexter Gordon and Sonny Stitt, helped integrate their developments with the emerging "vernacular" of the bebop movement, and the chromaticism and rhythmic variety of Charlie Parker is evident in his playing.

While adept at the technical aspects of bebop, in particular its love of harmonic substitutions, Ammons more than Young, Webster or Parker, stayed in touch with the commercial blues and R&B of his day. For example, in 1950 the saxophonist's recording of "My Foolish Heart" made Billboard Magazine's black pop charts. The soul jazz movement of the mid-1960s, often using the combination of tenor saxophone and Hammond B3 electric organ, counts him as a founder. With a thinner, drier tone than Stitt or Gordon, Ammons could at will exploit a vast range of textures on the instrument, vocalizing it in ways that look forward to later artists like Stanley Turrentine, Houston Person, and even Archie Shepp. Ammons showed little interest, however, in the modal jazz of John Coltrane, Joe Henderson or Wayne Shorter that was emerging at the same time.

Some fine ballad performances in his oeuvre are testament to an exceptional sense of intonation and melodic symmetry, powerful lyrical expressiveness, and mastery both of the blues and the bebop vernacular which can now be described as, in its own way, "classical."

"Answer Me, My Love" written by Fred Rauch, Carl Sigman and Gerhard Winkler, performed by Gene Ammons, is featured on the soundtrack for Romance & Cigarettes (2005). He played on a Bb Conn 10M tenor saxophone with a Brilhart Ebolin mouthpiece.

Ammons is considered a major influence on the style of popular jazz tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman.

Ammons died in 1974, at the age of 49, of cancer.

Discography (As leader)
Golden Saxophone (1952) (Savoy)
The Happy Blues (1956) (Prestige)
Jammin' with Gene (1956) (Prestige)
Funky (1957) (Prestige reissued on Original Jazz Classics)
Jammin' in Hi-fi (1957) (Prestige)
Blue Gene (1958) (Prestige)
Groove Blues (1958) (Prestige)
The Big Sound (1958) (Prestige)
The Swingin'est (1958) (Vee-Jay) with Bennie Green
Boss Tenor (1960) (Prestige)
Angel Eyes (1960) (Prestige)
Nice and Cool (1961) (Prestige)
Jug (1961) (Prestige)
Groovin' with Jug featuring Groove Holmes (1961) (Pacific Jazz)
Dig him featuring Sonny Stitt (1961) (Argo)
Boss Tenors Straight Ahead From Chicago with Sonny Stitt (1961) (Prestige)
Boss Tenors! with Sonny Stitt (1961) (Verve)
Just Jug (1961) (Argo)
Twisting the Jug (1961) (Prestige)
Boss Tenors in Orbit! (1962) (Verve)
Soul Summit (1962) (Prestige)
Soul Summit Vol. 2 (1962) (Prestige)
The Soulful Moods (1962) (Moodsville)
Blue Groove (1962) (Prestige)
Preachin' (1962) (Prestige)
Jug and Dodo w/ Dodo Marmarosa (1962) (Prestige)
Bad ! Bossa Nova (1962) (Prestige)
The Boss is Back (1969) (Prestige)
Brother Jug (1969) (Prestige)
Night Lights (1970) (Prestige)
Swingin' the Jug (1970) (Roots)
Hooray for Gene Ammons (1970) (Session)
The Chase with Dexter Gordon (1970) (Prestige)
The Black Cat (1970) (Prestige)
You Talk that Talk ! (1971) (Prestige)
My Way (1971) (Prestige)
Chicago Concert w/ James Moody (saxophonist)James Moody (1971) (Prestige)
Free Again (1972) (Prestige)
God Bless Jug and Sonny (1973) (Prestige)
Left Bank Encores (1973) (Prestige)
And Friends at Montreux (1973) (Prestige)
In Sweden (1973) (Enja)
Brasswind (1973) (Prestige)
Together Again for the Last Time with Sonny Stitt (1973) (Prestige)
Goodbye (1974) (Original Jazz Classics)
Acid Jazz (1997) (Legends Of) (recorded 1962, 70, 71 Rudy Van Gelder) (Prestige)

Discography (As sideman)
with Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (Columbia, 1972)

Produced by Orrin Keepnews
Recorded during concert performance at the Montreux (Switxerland) Jazz Festival; July 7, 1973
Recording Engineers: Chris Penycate, Carlos Olms
Remix Engineer: Jim Stern (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley)
Remastering, 1999 - Kirk Felton (Fantasy)
Original LP art direction & photography by Tony Lane
Cover Montage: Jamie Putnam


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Thanks to the original releaser.
Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux (1999)

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