Gene Ammons

Boss Tenor (EJC 55484)

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1960

Boss Tenor

Gene Ammons

Essential Jazz Classics

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EJC 124814

EJC 55484

JAZZ

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Boss Tenor

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This release presents Gene Ammons’ classic album Boss Tenor (Prestige 7369) in its entirety.  Recorded in a quintet format with Ammons as the only horn, it also features Tommy Flanagan on piano, Doug Watkins on bass, Art Taylor on drums, and Ray Barretto on congas. Recorded Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, June 16, 1960. As a bonus,  the complete (and difficult to find) LP Angel Eyes (Prestige 7369). Ammons is backed here by two different groups featuring Frank Wess, Mal Waldron, and organist Johnny “Hammond” Smith, among others.

Also know as “Jug” and “The Boss”, Eugene Ammons the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons. He began to gain recognition when he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax’s 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. Boss Tenor belongs to the period between both imprisonments, while our bonus album, Angel Eyes was an album issued with old material while “Jug” was in jail. Conga drummer Ray Barretto is present on both of the albums reissued here (Ammons had already recorded Blue Gene with Barretto in 1958, and the two musicians would later record a number of other albums together).

PERSONNEL:

GENE AMMONS,
tenor sax
TOMMY FLANAGAN, piano
DOUG WATKINS, bass
ART TAYLOR, drums
RAY BARRETTO, conga

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, June 16, 1960.

(8-13) BONUS ALBUM: ANGEL EYES
(8-9) & (11-12): Gene Ammons (ts), Frank Wess (ts, fl), Johnny "Hammond" Smith (org),
Doug Watkins (b), Art Taylor (d), Ray Barretto (congas).
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, June 17, 1960.

(10 & (13):
Gene Ammons (ts), Mal Waldron (p), Wendell Marshall (b), Ed Thigpen (d).
New York, September 5, 1962.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01 HITTIN’ THE JUG 8:30
02 CLOSE YOUR EYES 3:46
03 MY ROMANCE 4:15
04 CANADIAN SUNSET 5:24
05 BLUE AMMONS 4:57
06 CONFIRMATION 5:24
07 STOMPIN’ AT THE SAVOY 3:32
08 GETTIN’ AROUND 6:50*
09 BLUE ROOM 5:37*
10 YOU GO TO MY HEAD 5:58*
11 ANGEL EYES 8:48*
12 WATER JUG 5:12*
13 IT’S THE TALK OF THE TOWN 4:17*

TOTAL TIME: 72:32