Gene Ammons

This release contains Gene Ammons' complete quartet album "Swingin' the Jug", which has never been previously issued on CD! As a bonus, this edition also includes The Black Cat LP in its entirety plus Ammons' rare and outstanding live quartet performance of the classic ballad "Here's that Rainy Day" at the 1973 Watts Jazz Festival.

PERSONNEL:

GENE AMMONS, tenor sax on all tracks, with:

[1-6] BOB PIERCE, organ; GEORGE FREEMAN, guitar & BOB GUTHRIE, drums
Chicago, 1970.

[7-12] HAROLD MABERN, piano; GEORGE FREEMAN, guitar, RON CARTER, bass: IDRIS MUHAMMAD, drums
New York, November 11, 1970.

[13] HAROLD LAND Jr., piano; JOHNNY WILLIAMS, bass & PAUL HUMPHREY, drums
Live at the Watts Jazz Festival, Watts, California, summer 1973.

INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01. Swingin' The Jug
02. Round Midnight
03. The Look of Love
04. Lover Man
05. Just the Blues
06. Confessin' the Blues
07. The Black Cat
08. Long Long Time
09. Piece to Keep Away Evil Spirits
10. Jug Eyes
11. Something
12. Hi Ruth!
13. Here's That Rainy Day

TOTAL TIME: 76:08