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| Gentle Jug, Volume 2 |
| Gene Ammons |
| első megjelenés éve: 1971 |
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| (2007)
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| 3.884 Ft
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| 1. | It's The Talk Of The Town
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| 2. | They Say You're Laughing At Me
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| 3. | You Go To My Head
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| 4. | Stranger In Town
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| 5. | If You Are But A Dream
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| 6. | I Sold My Heart To The Junkman
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| 7. | My Romance
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| 8. | I Want To Be Loved (but Only By You)
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| 9. | Here's That Rainy Day
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| 10. | Don't Go To Strangers
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| 11. | A House Is Not A Home
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| 12. | Love I Found You
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Jazz
Recorded between 1960 and 1971
with Mal Waldron, Wendell Marshall, Ed Thigpen, Patti Bown, George Duvivier, Walter Perkins, Etta Jones, Arthur Taylor, Ray Barretto, Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins, Red Holloway, George Barrow, Clark Terry, Hobart Dotson, Bob Ashton, Oliver Nelson, Richard Wyands, Bill English, Junior Mance, Buster Williams, Frankie Jones, Candido, Roland Hanna
Like all jazz immortals, Gene Ammons thrived in many settings. His Prestige jam sessions established the recording format for an entire era; he was a thoroughgoing master of the blues and a natural in an organ combo. When it came to playing ballads, though, Ammons outdid himself; and this collection, surveying his ballad work from 1960 to 1971, with accompaniment ranging from a lone electric piano to a full big band, is definitive Ammons balladry. Whether crooning venerable standards like "Talk of the Town" or "You Go to My Head" with a quartet, exploring less familiar titles such as "Don't Go to Strangers" and "Love I've Found You," or even backing Etta Jones on "If You Are But a Dream," the tenor balladry here is strictly Boss.
Gene Ammons
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s
Born: Apr 14, 1925 in Chicago, IL
Died: Aug 06, 1974 in Chicago, IL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop
Gene Ammons, who had a huge and immediately recognizable tone on tenor, was a very flexible player who could play bebop with the best (always battling his friend Sonny Stitt to a tie) yet was an influence on the R&B world. Some of his ballad renditions became hits and, despite two unfortunate interruptions in his career, Ammons remained a popular attraction for 25 years.
Son of the great boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, Gene Ammons (who was nicknamed "Jug") left Chicago at age 18 to work with King Kolax's band. He originally came to fame as a key soloist with Billy Eckstine's orchestra during 1944-1947, trading off with Dexter Gordon on the famous Eckstine record Blowing the Blues Away. Other than a notable stint with Woody Herman's Third Herd in 1949 and an attempt at co-leading a two tenor group in the early '50s with Sonny Stitt, Ammons worked as a single throughout his career, recording frequently (most notably for Prestige) in settings ranging from quartets and organ combos to all-star jam sessions. Drug problems kept him in prison during much of 1958-1960 and, due to a particularly stiff sentence, 1962-1969. When Ammons returned to the scene in 1969, he opened up his style a bit, including some of the emotional cries of the avant-garde while utilizing funky rhythm sections, but he was still able to battle Sonny Stitt on his own terms. Ironically the last song that he ever recorded (just a short time before he was diagnosed with terminal cancer) was "Goodbye."
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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