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| Late Hour Special |
| Gene Ammons |
első megjelenés éve: 1961
35 perc |
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| (1990)
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CD |
| 3.884 Ft
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| 1. | The Party's Over
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| 2. | I Want to Be Loved (But by Only You)
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| 3. | Things Ain't What They Used to Be
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| 4. | Lascivious
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| 5. | Makin' Whoopee
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| 6. | Soft Winds
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| 7. | Lullaby of the Leaves
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Jazz / Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop
Gene Ammons - Sax (Tenor)
Billy Gene English Drums
Bob Ashton Sax (Baritone)
Clark Terry Trumpet
Dan Morgenstern Liner Notes
Esmond Edwards Supervisor
George Barrow Sax (Tenor)
George Duvivier Bass
Hobart Dotson Trumpet
Joe Tarantino Remastering
Oliver Nelson Conductor, Arranger, Sax (Alto)
Patti Bown Piano
Ray Barretto Conga
Red Holloway Sax (Tenor)
Richard Wyands Piano
Rudy Van Gelder Engineer
Walter Perkins - Drums
Wendell Marshall Bass
Originally released by Prestige while tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons was serving a long prison sentence for possession of drugs (the label effectively kept Ammons' name alive by regularly coming out with "new" material), this album was reissued on CD in 1997. The distinctive tenor is heard on three numbers with a quartet/quintet also including pianist Patti Bown, bassist George Duvivier, drummer Walter Perkins, and sometimes Ray Barretto on conga, and on four cuts as part of a ten-piece group arranged by Oliver Nelson. Flugelhornist Clark Terry gets a couple of choruses on "Things Ain't What They Used to Be," and Bown has several solos, but Ammons is the main star throughout. In addition to performing his own "Lascivious" (a blues), he sticks to standards, infusing each tune with soul and swing. A fine outing, although with brief (35 & 1/2 minutes) playing time. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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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