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Released
  
1964

Velvet Soul (1960-62)
  
Angel Eyes (1960-62)

Release date
  
1964

Label
  
Prestige Records

Length
  
38:24

Artist
  
Gene Ammons

Producer
  
Esmond Edwards

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
June 17, 1960, June 13, 1961 and September 5, 1962 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Similar
  
Gene Ammons albums, Jazz albums

Velvet Soul is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons compiling sessions recorded between 1960 and 1962 and released on the Prestige label in 1964.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 2½ stars with its review by Stewart Mason stating, "Released as Gene Ammons was starting a long prison sentence for possession of narcotics, Velvet Soul is a collection of Master takes pieced together from three different 1960-1962 sessions. As a result, it barely hangs together as an album". In the CD era the tracks Velvet Soul and In Sid's Thing have been combined with other tracks from that session which appear on the Angel Eyes album to form 40 of the 80 min CD - Organ Combos

Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron except as indicated

  1. "Light'n Up" - 4:02
  2. "In Sid's Thing" (Gene Ammons) - 5:25
  3. "Salome's Tune" - 4:16
  4. "A Stranger in Town" (Mel Tormé) - 6:02
  5. "Velvet Soul" (Johnny "Hammond" Smith) - 8:54
  6. "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 9:45
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs New Jersey on June 17, 1960 (tracks 2 & 5), June 13, 1961 (track 6) and September 5, 1962 (tracks 1, 3 & 4)

    • Personnel

  • Gene Ammons - tenor saxophone
  • Hobart Dotson, Clark Terry - trumpet (track 6)
  • Oliver Nelson - alto saxophone, arranger (track 6)
  • George Barrow, Red Holloway - tenor saxophone (track 6)
  • Frank Wess - tenor saxophone, flute (tracks 2 & 5)
  • Bob Ashton - baritone saxophone (track 6)
  • Mal Waldron (tracks 1, 3 & 4), Richard Wyands (track 6) - piano
  • Johnny "Hammond" Smith - organ (tracks 2 & 5)
  • Wendell Marshall (tracks 1, 3, 4 & 6), Doug Watkins (tracks 2 & 5) - bass
  • Bill English (track 6), Art Taylor (tracks 2 & 5), Ed Thigpen (tracks 1, 3 & 4) - drums
  • Ray Barretto - congas (track 6)

    • References

    Velvet Soul Wikipedia
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