Gene Ammons

3 LPs ON 2 CDs

PERSONNEL:

Personnel on CD 1 (1-4):

Idrees Sulieman (tp)
Gene Ammons (ts)
Pepper Adams (bs)
Mal Waldron (p)
Doug Watkins (b)
Art Taylor (d)
Ray Barretto (congas)

Hackensack, N.J., May 2, 1958


Personnel on CD 1 (5-7):

Jerome Richardson (fl)
John Coltrane (as)
Gene Ammons, Paul Quinichette (ts)
Pepper Adams (bs)
Mal Waldron (p, arr)
George Joyner (b)
Arthur Taylor (d)

Hackensack, NJ, January 3, 1958


Personnel on CD 2, (1-5):

Jerome Richardson (fl, out #2)
John Coltrane (as, out #1,3,4,5)
Gene Ammons (ts)
Pepper Adams (bs, out #2,3,4,5)
Mal Waldron (p, arr)
George Joyner (b)
Arthur Taylor (d)

Hackensack, NJ, January 3, 1958


Personnel on CD 2 (6):

Art Farmer (tp)
Jackie McLean (as)
Gene Ammons (ts)
Duke Jordan (p)
Addison Farmer (b)
Art Taylor (d)
Candido Camero (conga)

Hackensack, NJ, April 23, 1956

Sources:

CD 1 (1-4) from the album Blue Gene (Prestige PRLP 7146)
CD 1 (5, 6) & CD 2 (2, 4) from the album Groove Blues (Prestige PRLP 7201)
CD 1 (7) & CD 2 (1, 3, 5) from the album The Big Sound (Prestige PRLP 7132)
CD 2 (6) from from the album The Happy Blues (Prestige PRLP 7039)

TRACKS:

CD 1

01. Blue Gene (Waldron) 13:54
02. Scamperin' (Waldron) 8:46
03. Blue Greens ‘n Beans (Waldron) 9:01
04. Hip Tip (Waldron) 8:55
05. Ammon Joy (Waldron) 13:16
06. Groove Blues (Ammons) 9:32
07. The Real McCoy (Waldron) 8:32

CD 2

01. That's All (Brandt-Haymes-Otis-Owens) 13:57
02. It Might As Well Be Spring (Rogers-Hammerstein) 11:33
03. Cheek To Cheek (Berlin) 14:12
04. Jug Handle (Waldron) 10:10
05. Blue Hymn (Ammons) 12:37
06. Can't We Be Friends? (James-Swift) 12:54