(Jazz,Bebop, Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo) Gene Ammons - Blue Gene - 1958, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Track listing
1. Blue Gene
2. Scamperin'
3. Blue Greens and Beans
4. Hip Tip
Details
Playing time: 40 min.
Contributing artists:  Art Taylor, Doug Watkins, Idrees Sulieman, Mal Waldron, Pepper Adams, Ray Barretto
Producer: Bob Weinstock
Distributor: Fantasy (distributor)
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: AAD
Album notes
Personnel: Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone); Pepper Adams (baritone saxophone); Idrees Sulieman (trumpet); Mal Waldron (piano); Doug Watkins (bass); Art Taylor (drums); Ray Barretto (congas).
Recorded in New York, New York on May 2, 1958. Originally released on Prestige (7146). Includes original release liner notes by Ira Gitler.
Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).
Personnel: Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone); Pepper Adams (baritone saxophone); Idrees Sulieman (trumpet); Mal Waldron (piano); Art Taylor (drums); Ray Barretto (congas).
Recording information: Hackensack, NJ (05/02/1958); New Jersey (05/02/1958).
Unknown Contributor Roles: Doug Watkins; Gene Ammons; Idrees Sulieman; Mal Waldron; Pepper Adams; Ray Barretto.
The final of his series of jam sessions for Prestige features an excellent septet (the leader on tenor, trumpeter Idrees Sulieman, baritonist Pepper Adams, pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Doug Watkins, drummer Art Taylor and Ray Barretto on congas) stretching out on three original blues and the ballad "Hip Tip"; all four pieces were written by Waldron. Few surprises occur but everyone plays up to their usual high level. This enjoyable straightahead CD is a reissue of the original LP. ~ Scott Yanow
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Gene Ammons, “Blue Gene” (1958, OJC re-issue)
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Maybe it’s because I’m recovering from the experience of attending a high school reunion, after 30 years of avoiding such an event. But the old parlor game of imagining life and culture during one’s earliest days of life is getting to be somewhat more appealing. For instance, for those of us born around 1960, there’s the eerie phenomenon of switching on the best show currently on TV—I refer of course to “Mad Men” on AMC, now about to begin its second season—and sorting through the inevitable poetic license to discover something about the experience of our parents as they negotiated the pre-JFK, pre-feminism, pre-Beatles, pre-Woodstock, American culture-scape.
In the same vein, tracking one’s relationship to musical culture can take up a similar parlor game, with similarly appealing results. What were the musical currents during the years of our birth, and how might those currents have fared during the intervening decades? We might begin with the most important and lasting American contribution to 20th century music, and I refer of course to jazz. In so doing, it would perhaps be unfair to cite the true giants of modern jazz: Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonius Monk, or the endlesssly astonishing Duke Ellington. The greatness of the cutting-edge jazz musicians of the mid-century is so obvious as to require no argument on their behalf But how about jazz in the heart of its blues-based tradition: the core lounge-fixated pulse of the mainstream of the American improvisatory jazz scene in 1960?
The tenor sax player Gene Ammons (1925-1974), born into a jazz family as the son of boogie-woogie Chicago pianist Albert Ammons, is a fair representative standing in the mainstream of the jazz world as we discover it in mid-1958 on his album Blue Gene, featuring the Gene Ammons All Stars, currently reissued by OJC. This is not the avant garde jazz pinnacle of that era, which only a few months later would be claimed by the great Miles Davis ensemble on the classic Kind of Blue (1959) sessions, where Davis was joined on an un-rehearsed modal set by an immortal line up comprising John Coltrane (tenor), Wynton Kelly (piano), Cannonball Adderly (alto), and Bill Evans (piano). After Kind of Blue, as all students of the music are well aware, jazz would never be the same again.
Instead, on Blue Gene, Ammons presents a merely solid but utterly reliable lineup including Idrees Sulieman (Leonard Graham) on trumpet, Pepper Adams on baritone, Mal Waldron on piano, Art Taylor on drums, Doug Watkins on bass, and Ray Barretto on conga. The rhythm section hardly breaks a sweat, but lays down a fat groove with just a moderate flavor of harmonic improvisation to shade its blues atmosphere into the modern idiom. Titles include only four extended cuts: “Blue Gene”, “Scamperin”, “Blue Greens n Beans”, and “Hip Tip” — and all tracks are long, with plenty of focus on the unhurried solos of Ammons on tenor, which he plays in his characteristic style reminiscent of the vibrato-rich playing of Ben Webster or Scott Hamilton. Long out of print on 33rpm disc, this vital release by Ammons has been given the audiophile vinyl treatment, making the relaxed set of blues numbers a great listening experience, transporting the listener back in time to a favorite smoke-filled lounge of the pre-Kennedy era.
How many of us know that the late Fifties jazz scene was this unpretentiously engaged in the blues, especially in its less experimental moods? Or that the music had so much integrity even on the verge of its transformation by rock and roll, that viscerally commanding but ultimately less enduring musical form that it spawned?

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