Angel Eyes (Gene Ammons album)

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Released 1965 Angel Eyes (1960-62) Sock! (1954-62) Release date 1965 Label Universal Music LLC		Length 36:25 Artist Gene Ammons Producer Esmond Edwards Genre Jazz

Recorded June 17, 1960 and September 5, 1962 Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Similar Gene Ammons albums, Jazz albums

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Angel Eyes is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons compiling sessions recorded in 1960 and 1962 and released on the Prestige label in 1965.

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating, "Music from two different occasions are combined on this CD reissue... The latter set was one of Ammons' final ones before serving a long prison sentence (drug-related), yet his interpretations are full of optimism. Recommended".

Track listing

"Gettin' Around" (Gene Ammons) – 6:46
"Blue Room" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 5:34
"You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 5:55
"Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) – 8:45
"Water Jug" (Frank Wess) – 5:10
"It's the Talk of the Town" (Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes) – 4:15

Note

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs New Jersey on June 17, 1960 (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5) and September 5, 1962 (tracks 3 & 6)

Personnel

Gene Ammons – tenor saxophone

Frank Wess – tenor saxophone, flute (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5)

Mal Waldron (tracks 3 & 6) – piano

Johnny "Hammond" Smith – organ (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5)

Wendell Marshall (tracks 3 & 6), Doug Watkins (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5) – bass

Art Taylor (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5), Ed Thigpen (tracks 3 & 6) – drums

Songs

1Gettin' Around6:55
2Blue Room5:39
3You Go to My Head5:59

References

Angel Eyes (Gene Ammons album) Wikipedia

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