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Released
  
1956

All Star Sessions (1950-55)
  
The Happy Blues (1956)

Release date
  
1956

Label
  
Universal Music LLC

Length
  
54:40

Artists
  
Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt

Producer
  
Bob Weinstock

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
March 5, 1950, October 28, 1950, January 13, 1951 and June 16, 1955

Studio
  
New York City and Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

Similar
  
Gene Ammons albums, Jazz albums

All Star Sessions is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded between 1950 and 1955 and released on the Prestige label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars with its review by Stewart Mason stating, "A bop classic, All-Star Session was the recording debut of Gene Ammons as a leader with his group the Gene Ammons All-Stars, featuring his fellow tenor saxophonist Sonny Stitt... Those looking to explore Stitt and Ammons' enormous catalogs (both together and separately) could do much worse than starting right here".

Track listing

All compositions by Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt except where noted.

  1. "Woofin' and Tweetin'" (Gene Ammons) – 15:05
  2. "Juggernaut" (Ammons) – 10:28
  3. "Blues Up and Down" [take 3] – 2:39
  4. "Blues Up and Down" [take 1] – 1:28 Bonus track on CD reissue
  5. "Blues Up and Down" [take 2] – 2:23 Bonus track on CD reissue
  6. "You Can Depend on Me" [take 1] (Charlie Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines) – 2:50
  7. "You Can Depend on Me" [take 2] (Carpenter, Dunlap, Hines) – 2:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "Stringin' the Jug" – 5:05
  9. "New Blues Up and Down" – 5:07
  10. "Bye Bye" (Jimmy Mundy) – 3:02 Bonus track on CD reissue
  11. "When I Dream of You" (Carpenter, Hines) – 2:55 Bonus track on CD reissue
  12. "A Lover Is Blue" (Carpenter, Mundy, James Oliver Young) – 2:46

Note

  • Recorded in New York City on March 5, 1950 (tracks 3-7 & 10), October 28, 1950 (tracks 8, 11 & 12), January 31, 1951 (track 9) and at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack New Jersey on June 15, 1955 (tracks 1 & 2)

    • Personnel

  • Gene Ammons – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
  • Sonny Stitt – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone (tracks 3-10)
  • Art Farmer (tracks 1 & 2), Billy Massey (tracks 9 & 10) – trumpet
  • Chippy Outcalt – trombone (track 9)
  • Lou Donaldson – alto saxophone (tracks 1 & 2)
  • Charlie Bateman (track 9), Duke Jordan (tracks 3-7 & 10), Junior Mance (track 8, 11 & 12), Freddie Redd (tracks 1 & 2) – piano
  • Addison Farmer (tracks 1 & 2), Tommy Potter (tracks 3-7 & 10), Gene Wright (tracks 8, 9, 11 & 12) – bass
  • Art Blakey (track 9), Kenny Clarke (tracks 1 & 2), Jo Jones (tracks 3-7 & 10), Wes Landers (tracks 8, 11 & 12) – drums
  • Larry Townsend – vocals (track 9)

    • Songs

    1Woofin' and Tweetin'15:07
    2Juggernaut10:30
    3Blues Up and Down (take 3)2:41

    References

    All Star Sessions Wikipedia
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