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

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 1998

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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Shirley Scott: Legends of Acid Jazz: Shirley Scott

by Douglas Payne
June 1, 1998

Philly organist Shirley Scott and Pittsburgh tenor great Stanley Turrentine recorded one dozen times together between 1961 and1969 for the Prestige, Blue Note, Impulse and Atlantic labels. They were married to each other about the same time too. Legends of Acid Jazz: Shirley Scott combines two sessions from 1961: their very first together, Hip Shout, and ...

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Various Artists: Legends of Acid Jazz: Hammond Heroes

by Douglas Payne
June 1, 1998

Legends of Acid Jazz-Hammond Heroes offers few advantages more than a gathering of solid soul-jazz tunes. It is, however, a decent (if not essential) collection of “Hammond heroes." But nearly every track here actually pre-dates what has come to be considered “acid jazz." If Prestige were to tap the Hammond heroes of its acid jazz period, ...

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Red Holloway: Legends of Acid Jazz: Red Holloway

by Douglas Payne
June 1, 1998

Tenor man Red Holloway was making headlines and packing clubs in the early sixties fronting Jack McDuff's powerhouse band (with guitarist George Benson) when the organist's label, Prestige, gave him a shot at making his own music. Although he'd been an active jazz player for two decades (and remains one today), Holloway only recorded his debut, ...

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Billy Butler: Legends of Acid Jazz: Billy Butler

by Douglas Payne
June 1, 1998

Legends of Acid Jazz: Billy Butler documents two interesting records made by the unfortunately neglected studio guitarist Billy Bulter (1924-91). The man who gave the groove to Bill Doggett's perennial juke-box classic “Honky Tonk" released four solo albums on Prestige between 1968 and 1970. This CD combines the first ( This is Billy Butler ) and ...

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