Gene Ammons (1965 Promo Vinyl LP Cleaned Playtested PR7369 1st Press) Angel Eyes

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PROMO – MONO

1ST PRESSING (USA)

VPI MACHINE CLEANED & PLAYTESTED

Artist: Gene Ammons

Album Title: Angel Eyes

Featuring: Frank Wess, Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins, Art Taylor

Catalogue Number: PR 7369

Year/Record Company: 1965 Prestige Records

1 LP – Mono - 12 inch vinyl record - 33 1/3

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This promo LP record album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

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LP Condition: very good

Shine: most

Scratches: several light; no skips, no hang-ups, no missing audio

Label Wear: very light

Label: silver on black, “Prestige” logo at the right

Spindle Hole Wear: light

LP Sound: very good

Surface Noise: light

Jacket Condition: very good+

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: minimal

Back Ring Wear: very light

Front Ring Wear: minimal

Ink or pencil marks: none

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stamp: small sticker removed from front, upper right; red “Preview Copy” stamp on back, in the middle (see photos)

Sleeve Type: blank sleeve

Sleeve Wear: minimal

Cover: Gai Terrell

Liner Notes: Robert Levin

Angel Eyes is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons compiling sessions recorded in 1960 and 1962 and released on the Prestige label in 1965. Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating, "Music from two different occasions are combined... 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". (source: Wikipedia)

Song List:

Side One

Gettin’ Around

Blue Room

You Go To My Head

Side Two

Angel Eyes

Water Jug

It’s The Talk Of The Town

Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – August 6, 1974), also known as "The Boss", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. The son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, Gene Ammons is remembered for his accessible music, steeped in soul and R&B, but his career was hampered by two incarcerations on drugs charges.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ammons studied music with instructor Walter Dyett at DuSable High School. Ammons began to gain recognition while still at high school when in 1943, at the age of 18, he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax's band. In 1944 he joined the band of Billy Eckstine (who bestowed on him the nickname "Jug" when straw hats ordered for the band did not fit), playing alongside Charlie Parker and later Dexter Gordon. Notable performances from this period include "Blowin' the Blues Away," featuring a saxophone duel between Ammons and Gordon. After 1947, when Eckstine became a solo performer, Ammons then led a group, including Miles Davis and Sonny Stitt, that performed at Chicago's Jumptown Club. In 1949 Ammons replaced Stan Getz as a member of Woody Herman's Second Herd, and then in 1950 formed a duet with Sonny Stitt.

The 1950s were a prolific period for Ammons and produced some acclaimed recordings such as "The Happy Blues" (1955). Musicians who played in his groups, apart from Stitt, included Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Mal Waldron, Art Farmer, and Duke Jordan.

His later career was interrupted by two prison sentences for narcotics possession, the first from 1958 to 1960, the second from 1962 to 1969. Ammons died in Chicago in 1974, at the age of 49, from cancer. (source: Wikipedia)

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