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Gene Ammons: Fine and Mellow
by Derek Taylor
Gene “Jug” Ammons was a sucker for finely wrought pop songs. He was also unapologetic slave to melody, putting his sturdy saxophone into the service of countless hummable themes. But his improvisations were never slavish and even with material of papish pedigree he always seemed to find something worthwhile to say. Perfect case ...
Gene Ammons & James Moody: The Chicago Concert
by Derek Taylor
Gene Ammons took the stage countless times during a career that spanned well over three decades. On a significant number of those dates, Jug found himself in the company of other horns, but sparks were often most plentiful when his foil in the frontline was a single tenor saxophone. Sonny Stitt abetted as his most common ...
Gene Ammons: Angel Eyes
by Robert Gilbert
Gene Ammons’ Angel Eyes leaves a nagging feeling that it was thrown together and dumped onto the marketplace with little or no thought. After all, when Angel Eyes was released in 1965, Ammons was in the middle of serving a long jail term for narcotics possession. These tunes are culled from two separate sessions, done in ...
Left Bank Encores
By Gene Ammons
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Just In Time; 2. They Can't Take That Away From Me; 3. Theme From
Love Story; 4. Exactly Like You; 5. Don't Go To Strangers; 6. Autumn
Leaves; 7. Blues Up And Down.
Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt: Left Bank Encores
by David A. Orthmann
The antithesis of studio-bred perfection, Left Bank Encores is another interesting artifact of Ammons and Stitt’s long-term partnership. The presence of a large, vocal crowd at the Famous Ballroom doesn’t spur the expected tenor battle; rather, something looser and less dramatic occurs. During a brisk rendition of “Just In Time,” the set’s opener, Ammons states the ...
Gene Ammons: A Stranger In Town
by C. Andrew Hovan
More so than other independent jazz labels such as Blue Note and Riverside, the powers to be at Prestige seemed to take great liberties in producing albums that would often contain cuts from multiple sessions, a discographical nightmare at its most basic. But even more troubling, this often made for a lack of coherence that could ...
Gene Ammons: Gentle Jug, Vol. 3
by Derek Taylor
Among the legion of artists represented on the Fantasy Records roster Gene Ammons remains one of the most anthologized. Collections of his work abound and a primary reason for this was the prolific pace he set with the Prestige label (one of many now under the Fantasy umbrella) for nearly a quarter century and waxed sessions ...
