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The Prestige Records Story

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Disc One

Lee Konitz/Lennie Tristano: Subconscious-Lee; Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Allen Eager, Brew Moore: Four and One Moore; Wardell Gray: Twisted ; Sonny Stitt: All God's Chillun Got Rhythm; Gene Ammons: Blues Up and Down (take 3); James Moody: I'm in the Mood for Love (aka Moody's Mood for Love); King Pleasure: Moody's Mood for Love (aka I'm in the Mood for Love); Annie Ross; Twisted; Miles Davis: Dig; Jimmy Raney and Stan Getz: 'Round Midnight; Miles Davis: The Serpent's Tooth (take 1); Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk; Miles Davis: Bags' Groove (take 2); Milt Jackson: My Funny Valentine; Miles Davis: Doxy; The Modern Jazz Quartet: Django.

Disc Two

James Moody: Disappointed; Miles Davis Sextet: Walkin'; Sonny Rollins: St. Thomas; Sonny Rollins: Pent-Up House; Miles Davis Quintet: Well, You Needn't; Tadd Dameron: On a Misty Night; Red Garland: If I Were a Bell; Gil Evans: Nobody's Heart; John Coltrane: Russian Lullaby; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: In the Kitchen.

Disc Three

Gene Ammons: Canadian Sunset; Coleman Hawkins: Trouble Is a Man; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Coleman Hawkins, Arnett Cobb, Buddy Tate: Very Saxy; Mose Allison: The Seventh Son; Eric Dolphy: G.W.; Roland Kirk: Kirk's Work; Oliver Nelson, King Curtis, Jimmy Forrest: Soul Street; Etta Jones: Don't Go to Strangers; Shirley Scott: Hip Soul; Willis Jackson: This'll Get to Ya; Jack McDuff: Rock Candy; Willis Jackson: Troubled Times.

Disc Four

Gene Ammons: Ca'Purange (Jungle Soul); George Benson: Sweet Alice Blues; Richard "Groove" Holmes: Misty; Illinois Jacquet: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free; Sonny Criss: Smile; Dexter Gordon: Fried Bananas; Houston Person: Jamilah; Gene Ammons: Jungle Strut; Charles Earland: More Today Than Yesterday; Rusty Bryant: Soul Liberation; Boogaloo Joe Jones: No Way; Gene Ammons: You Talk That Talk.

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Gene Ammons: Boss Tenor

Read "Boss Tenor" reviewed by Douglas Payne


This relaxed, swinging quintet session from 1960 isn't the landmark that many of the other releases in this series are. But it is among the finest, most rewarding music tenor great Gene Ammons (1925-74) ever made. Boss Tenor -- easily confused with Boss Tenors , the 1961 Verve record Ammons cut with Sonny Stitt -- is ...

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Gene Ammons: Gene Ammons Greatest Hits: The 70s

Read "Gene Ammons Greatest Hits: The 70s" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Gene Ammons recorded for Prestige three decades, from 1950 almost to his death in 1974. This work was been compiled into three Greatest Hits volumes, and each has its own flavor. His sides in the 'Fifties concentrated on blues and jam sessions, with all-star casts. The 'Sixties brought small group efforts, emphasizing slow ballads and an ...

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The Jazz Giants Play Cole Porter- Night And Day

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Dream Dancing; Just One Of Those Things; You'd Be So Nice To Come Home; Love For Sale; All Of You; Night And Day; I Love Paris; I've Got You Under My Skin; Begin The Begine; I Love You; Easy To Love; Ev'ry Time I Say Goodbye; From This Moment On.

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Gene Ammons, Joe Henderson, Booker Ervin: Late Hour Special, Canyon Lady, The Trance

Read "Late Hour Special, Canyon Lady, The Trance" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Fantasy's Original Jazz Classics (OJC) series boasts almost 1000 titles, and the series is showing no signs of slowing down. Three recent additions to the OJC line are these excellent titles by tenor saxmen Gene Ammons, Joe Henderson and Booker Ervin. Ammons recorded so often in the early 1960s that when he was in prison on ...

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Up Tight!

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 1994

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Young Jug

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 1994

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Soul Summit

Label: Prestige
Released: 1992
Track listing: Soul Summit ; Tubby; Dumplin'; When You Wish Upon A Star; Shuffle Twist; Sleeping Susan; Out In The Cold Again; Soul Summit Vol. 2; Love I've Found You; But Not For Me; Too Marvelous For Words; If You Are But A Dream; Scram; Ballad For Baby; Cool, Cool, Daddy;


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