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All Star Sessions
Studio album by
Gene Ammons
Released1956
RecordedMarch 5 and October 28, 1950; January 13, 1951; and June 16, 1955
StudioNew York City and Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length54:40
Label Prestige
PRLP 7050
Producer Bob Weinstock
Gene Ammons chronology
Golden Saxophone
(1953) 		All Star Sessions
(1956) 		The Happy Blues
(1956)

All Star Sessions is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded between 1950 and 1955 and released on the Prestige label. [1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [4]

The Allmusic review by Stewart Mason stated: "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". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, except where indicated.

  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

References

  1. ^ Gene Ammons discography accessed February 7, 2013
  2. ^ a b Mason, S. Allmusic Review, accessed February 7, 2013
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 8. ISBN  0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 32. ISBN  978-0-14-103401-0.
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