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Gene Ammons: Legends of Acid Jazz

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Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1997
Time:
 74:01
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Bob Porter
Rating: *********. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: hardbop.tripod.com
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Purchase date: 2009.02.15
Price in €: 0,99





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[1] The Black Cat (Freeman) - 5:36
[2] Long Long Time (White (4:31
[3] Piece to Keep Away Evil Spirits (Ammons) - 7:49
[4] Jug Eyes (Ammons) - 8:10
[5] Something (Harrison) - 3:20
[6] Hi Ruth! (Ammons) - 5:09
[7] You Talk That Talk (Spencer) - 6:05
[8] Body and Soul (Eyton/Green/Heyman/Sour) - 4:21
[9] The People's Choice (Ousley) - 7:01
[10] Katea's Dance (Stitt) - 6:49
[11] The Sun Died (Charles/Giraud/Gregory/Leroyer) - 4:43
[12] Out of It (Vick) - 5:03
[13] I Can't Stop Loving You (Gibson) - 3:11
[14] My Babe (Dixon) - 2:59

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Gene Ammons - Tenor Saxophone

Ron Carter - Bass
George Freeman - Guitar
Billy James - Drums
Harold Mabern - Piano, Electric Piano
Idris Muhammad - Strings, Drums
Don Patterson - Organ
Sonny Sitt - Tenor Saxophone
Leon Spencer - Organ
Sonny Stitt - Tenor Saxophone
Paul Weeden - Guitar

Bob Porter - Producer
Rudy Van Gelder - Engineer
Kirk Felton - Remastering
Bill Fischer - Arranger, Conductor, String Arrangements
John Kraus - Photography
Gilles Margerin - Design
Bob Porter - Supervisor
Jamie Putnam - Art Direction
Carlo Wolff - Liner Notes

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1997 CD Prestige 24188

Digitally remastered by Kirk Felton (1997, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).

Ignore the title on this one-it's decidedly not acid jazz. It is, however, a fine collection of Ammons early-'70s work along with two numbers from 1962. ...    Full DescriptionThis is jazz in a funky vein. When he returned to working in the late '60s, Ammons embraced the changes that had taken place in the jazz world during his lengthy '60s incarceration (on drug charges). Here, an electric guitarist accompanies him on all of the '70s recordings, and some tracks also feature electric piano.

The two tracks from a decade prior (Willie Dixon's "My Babe" and Don Gibson's "I Can't Stop Loving You") find Ammons backed by an organ trio-one of his favored ensemble formats. These pieces stand up nicely alongside the more contemporary recordings and should lead a listener to investigate his PREACHIN' and THE GENE AMMONS STORY: ORGAN COMBOS albums.

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey between 1962 & 1971. Includes liner notes by Carlo Wolff.



As is often the case in this CD reissue series, the music has little to do with acid jazz, but it does feature a few organists. Tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons is heard on music that formerly comprised two complete LPs from 1970-1971 (The Black Cat and As You Talk That Talk), plus a pair of titles from a 1962 date only previously out on a sampler. The Black Cat is an interesting if erratic set that finds Ammons (along with guitarist George Freeman, Harold Mabern on electric piano, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Idris Muhammad) playing everything from the pop tune "Long Long Time" and George Harrison's "Something" (both of those tunes have unimaginative strings) to "Jug Eyes" and the boppish blues "Hi Ruth." As You Talk That Talk is a reunion with fellow tenor Sonny Stitt (they are joined by Freeman, Muhammad, and organist Leon Spencer), but it has a major problem. Stitt uses the electrified Varitone saxophone throughout the date, and his horn sounds even stranger than on his other Varitone dates, like a cross between an electric guitar and a dated keyboard; very eerie and odd. Ammons plays well enough (including on two throwaway numbers from 1962 with organist Don Patterson, guitarist Paul Weeden, and drummer Billy James), but overall, the music on this CD is dated and very much of the period. There are many more rewarding Gene Ammons reissues currently available.

Scott Yanow - All Music Guide
 

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