Complete Recordings with Jackie McLean & Mal Waldron (3 LP on 2 CD) + Bonus Tracks
  • PRLP 7060
    PRLP 7060
  • PRLP 7083
    PRLP 7083
  • PRLP 7110
    PRLP 7110
  • PRLP 7039
    PRLP 7039
  • Gene Ammons
    Gene Ammons
  • Mal Waldron
    Mal Waldron
  • Jackie McLean
    Jackie McLean

Gene Ammons

Complete Recordings with Jackie McLean & Mal Waldron (3 LP on 2 CD) + Bonus Tracks

Fresh Sound Records

Personnel:
Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Idrees Sulieman (tp), Jackie McLean (as), Gene Ammons (ts), Mal Waldron (p), Kenny Burrell (g), Doug Watkins, Paul Chambers (b), Art Taylor (d), Candido (perc), Jimmy Mundy (arr)

Reference: FSRCD 797

Bar code: 8427328607971

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These three albums are from a series of Gene Ammons-led sessions recorded for Prestige starting in 1955, when the tenor headed what amounted to the labels house group in after-hours collaborations that, despite their take-no-prisoners approach, yielded much swinging and imaginative excitement. Amid the fierce blowing Ammons displays power and intensity, and Jackie McLean reveals his concern for linear development, exhibiting a warm tone and phrasing firmly based on Bird. Three great trumpet players are featured in these albums.

On Jammin with Gene, Donald Byrd is in incisive and in arresting form, and Art Farmer is his usual elegant, fluent self, both on this album and Funky, while Idrees Sulieman is lyrical and forceful on Jammin in Hi-Fi. Guitarist Kenny Burrell offers some typically fleet choruses on two of the sessions. On piano, Mal Waldrons spare solos offer some piquant moments and leanly provocative statements, supported splendidly by Doug Watkins blues-rooted drive (he is replaced by the powerful Paul Chambers in the last date) and Art Taylors intelligent rhythmic patterns.

The last three bonus tracks on the second CD come from Ammons album The Happy Blues, again with Farmer, McLean and Taylor, but with pianist Duke Jordan instead of Waldron, and bassist Addison Farmer and Candido Camero on conga.



CD 1

01. Not Really the Blues (Mandel) 16:07
02. Jammin with Gene (Ammons) 14:23
03. We'll Be Together Again (Fischer-Laine) 4:31
04. Funky (Burrell) 8:56
05. Pint Size (Mundy) 12:20
06. Stella by Starlight (Washington-Young) 8:52
07. King Size (Mundy) 9:16

CD 2

01. The Twister (Waldron) 12:12
02. Four (Davis) 13:01
03. Pennies from Heaven (Burke-Johnston) 13:00
04. Cattin (Waldron) 11:59
05. The Happy Blues (Farmer) 12:08
06. The Great Lie (Calloway-Gibson) 8:42
07. Madhouse (McLean) 6:42

Album details

Sources:

CD 1 - Tracks 1-3, from the album
Jammin with Gene (Prestige PRLP7060)
CD 1 - Tracks 4-7, from the album
Funky (Prestige PRLP 7083)

CD 2 - Tracks 1-4, from the album
Jammin in Hi-Fi with Gene Ammons
(Prestige PRLP 7110)
CD 2 - Tracks 5-7, from the album
The Happy Blues (Prestige PRLP 7039)

Personnel on 'Jammin' with Gene':
Donald Byrd, Art Farmer (tp); Jackie McLean (as), Gene Ammons (ts); Mal Waldron (p); Doug Watkins (b); Art Taylor (d)
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, July 13, 1956

Personnel on 'Funky':
Art Farmer (tp), Jackie McLean (as), Gene Ammons (ts), Mal Waldron (p), Kenny Burrell (g), Doug Watkins (b), Art Taylor (d), Jimmy Mundy (arr)
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, January 11, 1957

Personnel on 'Jammin' in Hi-Fi':
Idrees Sulieman (tp), Jackie McLean (as), Gene Ammons (ts), Mal Waldron (p), Kenny Burrell (g), Paul Chambers (b), Art Taylor (d)
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, April 12, 1957

Personnel on 'The Happy Blues':
Art Farmer (tp), Jackie McLean (as), Gene Ammons (ts), Duke Jordan (p), Addison Farmer (b), Art Taylor (d), Candido Camero (conga)
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, April 23, 1956

Original recordings supervised by Bob Weinstock
All sessions engineered by Rudy Van Gelder
Original design & photos by Don Schlitten, Esmond Edwards, Reid Miles, John Hernansader & Tom Hannan

This CD release produced by Jordi Pujol
Hi Fidelity · 24-Bit Digitally Remastered

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Note:
Since the maximum playing time of a CD is 80 minutes, it has been necessary to leave out the track Cant We Be Friends? from the album The Happy Blues. It has been added as a bonus track on the 2-CD set Gene Ammons All Stars (FSR-798).

Press reviews

"Ah! Theres nothing like the big beefy sound of the Texas Tenor to cure whatever pains you have. Im convinced if you could just take Gene Ammons tone and make a balm out of it and rub it into your muscles, youd feel like you had a 30 minute massage.

The 1956-57 albums with Jackie McLean include three tunes with the golden trumpet of Art Farmer and Donald Byrd as everyone stretches out on a jam session over a pair of blues and Ammons holding court on an autumnal Well Be Together Again. Guitarist Kenny Burrell joins up with the band to replace Byrd and contributes some nice work on his title track Funky while Jimmy Mundy does some nice arranging of Pint Size and King Size to keep you alert. MacLeans bright tone is filled with spice here. The 1957 Stereo Jammin session includes the underrated trumpet of Idrees Sulieman, still with Burrell in tow, and they let four songs ride for 11-13 minutes each. A boppin Four and a sauntering Pennies from Heaven are putty in the hands of these giants. Most of the 1956 The Happy Blues album is on this disc, with one track on the other set, with pianist Duke Jordan getting some space on the title track and Farmer glowing on The Great Lie. Not a weak nanosecond of sound."

George Harris -January 17, 2014
www.jazzweekly.com

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