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Music > Jazz
This was her penultimate album, recorded when her body was telling
her enough was enough. During the sessions with arranger Ray Ellis
she was drinking vodka neat, as if it were tap water. Yet, for all
her ravaged voice (the sweetness had long gone) she was still an
incredible singer. The feeling and tension she manages to put into
almost every track sets this album as one of her finest
achievements. 'You've Changed' and 'I Get Along Without You Very
Well' are high art performances from the singer who saw life from
the bottom upwards. The CD reissue masterminded by Phil Shaap is
absolutely indispensable.
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Koi
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Lorenzo Feliciati
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Dinah Jams
(Vinyl record)
Dinah Washington & Clifford Brown
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Somethin' Else
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Cannonball Adderley
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R378
Discovery Miles 3 780
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AVID Jazz here presents three classic albums plus by Gene Ammons,
including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low
priced double CD. Son of legendary Boogie Woogie/Stride pianist
Albert Ammons we feature son Gene on 'Groove Blues', 'Boss Tenor',
'Blue Gene' and three tracks from 'The Happy Blues' (currently only
available as an expensive import). 'Groove Blues', driven by Billie
Holidays' pianist Mal Waldron who wrote three of the four featured
tracks also features one of the rare occasions when legendary Tenor
sax giant John Coltrane is featured on alto sax. As described in
Joe Goldberg's liner notes 'These solos are, I think, some of his
very best on any horn!' Gene Ammons breaks out of his unfair label
as a rhythm and blues player rather than a jazz player with a
classic line up of solid jazz musicians including Coltrane,
Waldron, Art Taylor, Pepper Adams and Paul Quinchette. 1960's 'Boss
Tenor' finds Ammons with perhaps one of his finest rhythm sections
including Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins, Art Taylor and Ray Barreto
who between them had played with the likes of JJ Johnson, Miles
Davis, Art Blakey and Thelonius Monk. 'Blue Gene' from 1958 again
finds pianist Mal Waldron writing all four of the featured tracks
accompanied by Idrees Suliman on trumpet and again the rhythm
section from 'Boss Tenor'. Finally 'Happy Blues' features a superb
line up including Art Farmer, Jackie Mclean, Duke Jordan, Addison
Farmer and Art Taylor. 'It's a happy session, a blowing session,
featuring a blues, a standard and an old but not so standard!' All
three albums plus have been digitally re-mastered for probably the
finest ever sound quality!
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