Legends Of Acid Jazz - Gene Ammons

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Sound Quality: Lossless
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Record Label: Prestige
Year Released: 1998
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Ώτα μου καλημέρα,

Συνεχίζω απ' την ίδια σειρά της Prestige, η οποία υπήρξε η κύρια δισκογραφική εταιρεία στην οποία ηχογράφησε τις περισσότερες δισκογραφικές του δουλειές ο τενόρο σαξοφωνίστας Gene Ammons ή γνωστός και με το παρατσούκλι "The Boss".

Πρόκειται για μία "συλλογή" αποτελούμενη από τρεις δισκογραφικές δουλειές του Ammons. Το "The Black Cat" από το 1970, το "You Talk That Talk" (album εξ' αδιαιρέτου με τον Sonny Stitt) ηχογραφημένο το 1971 και τέλος τα δύο μουσικά θέματα που υπάρχουν στις πλευρές ενός 45άρι δίσκου. Το τελευταίο δισκάκι (προερχόμενο λίγο παλιότερα χρονικά - Μάϊος του 1962) δεν είναι καταχωρημένο ως δίσκος του Ammons άλλα το "μοιράζεται" με τους Don Patterson, Paul Weeden, και Billy James*.

Sonny Stitt, Ron Carter, Idris Muhammad και Leon Spencer είναι μερικά ονόματα απ' τους μουσικούς που πλαισιώνουν αυτά τα album του Ammons τις συνθέσεις των οποίων παραθέτω αναλυτικότερα παρακάτω. Για μία πρόγευση του τι ακριβώς περιέχει αυτό το cdακι διαλέγω το εξαιρετικό "Jug Eyes" σε σύνθεση του Ammons από το "The Black Cat" και μία απ' τις πιο ομόρφες συνθέσεις του Harold Ousley  (τενόρο σαξοφωνίστας που συμμετείχε ως sideman εκτός από albums του Ammons και σε δισκογραφικές δουλειές των George Benson, Count Basie, Brother Jack McDuff  κ.α.) το "The People's Choice" από το "You Talk That Talk"

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Jug Eyes - Gene Ammons


The People's Choice - Gene Ammons



*Δεν κατάφερα να βρω αρκετά στοιχεία για αυτό το δισκάκι (και αυτά που βρήκα είναι αναμφίβολα σωστά) οπότε αν κάποιος γνωρίζει κάτι περισσότερο ας αφήσει ένα σχόλιο...

The Black Cat
Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone)
Harold Mabern (piano, electric piano)
George Freeman (guitar)
Ron Carter (bass)
Idris Muhammad (drums)

You Talk That Talk
Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone)
Sonny Stitt (tenor saxophone, varitone saxophone)
Leon Spencer (organ)
George Freeman (guitar)
Idris Muhammad (drums)

The Soul Giants
Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone)
Don Patterson (organ)
Paul Weeden (guitar)
Billy James (drums)

About Gene Ammons

Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – July 23, 1974) also known as "The Boss," was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, and the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons.

Ammons began to gain recognition when he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax band in 1943, at the age of 18. He became a member of the Billy Eckstine and Woody Herman bands in 1944 and 1949 respectively, and then in 1950 formed a duet with Sonny Stitt. His later career was interrupted by two prison sentences for narcotics possession, the first from 1958 to 1960, the second from 1962 to 1969. He recorded as a leader for Mercury (1947-1949), Aristocrat (1948-1950) and Chess (1950-1951), Prestige (1950-1952), Decca (1952), and United (1952-1953). For the rest of his career, he was affiliated with Prestige.

Ammons and Von Freeman were the founders of the Chicago School of tenor saxophone. His style of playing showed influences from Lester Young as well as Ben Webster. These artists had helped develop the sound of the tenor saxophone to higher levels of expressiveness. Ammons, together with Dexter Gordon and Sonny Stitt, helped integrate their developments with the emerging "vernacular" of the bebop movement, and the chromaticism and rhythmic variety of Charlie Parker is evident in his playing.

While adept at the technical aspects of bebop, in particular its love of harmonic substitutions, Ammons more than Young, Webster or Parker, stayed in touch with the commercial blues and R&B of his day. The "soul Jazz" movement of the mid-1960s, often using the combination of tenor saxophone and Hammond B3 electric organ, counts him as a founder. Often using a thinner, drier tone than Stitt or Gordon, Ammons could at will exploit a vast range of textures on the instrument, vocalizing it in ways that look forward to later artists like Stanley Turrentine, Houston Person, and remarkably Archie Shepp. Ammons showed little interest, however, in the modal jazz of John Coltrane, Joe Henderson or Wayne Shorter that was emerging at the same time.

Some fine ballad performances in his oeuvre are testament to an exceptional sense of intonation and melodic symmetry, powerful lyrical expressiveness, and mastery both of the blues and the bebop vernacular which can now be described as, in its own way, "classical."

"Answer Me, My Love" written by Fred Rauch, Carl Sigman and Gerhard Winkler, performed by Gene Ammons is featured on the soundtrack for Romance & Cigarettes (2005). Equipment: "Jug" played on a Bb Conn 10M Tenor Saxophone and a Brilhart Ebolin mouthpiece. Ammons is considered a major influence on the style of popular jazz tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman.

Ammons died in 1974, at the age of 49, after a battle with cancer.

Legends Of Acid Jazz - Hammond Heroes

Rating: 5.5/10 
Sound Quality: Lossless
Format: Flac
Record Label: Prestige
Year Released: 1998
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Μία ακόμα συλλογή της Prestige από τη σειρά "Legends Of Acid Jazz" εδώ με κεντρικό άξονα τους οργανοπαίχτες του Hammond. Brother Jack McDuff, Shirley Scott, Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Richard "Groove" Holmes κ.α.

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About the Hammond Organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard instrument for jazz, blues, rock music, church and gospel music.

The original Hammond organ used additive synthesis of waveforms from harmonic series made by mechanical tonewheels that rotate in front of electromagnetic pickups. The component waveform ratios are mixed by sliding drawbars mounted above the two keyboards. Although many different models of Hammond organs were produced, the Hammond B-3 organ is most well-known. In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s the distinctive sound of the B-3 organ (often played through a Leslie speaker) was widely used in Blues, progressive rock bands and blues-rock groups. The last electromechanical Hammond organ came off the assembly line in the mid-1970s.

In the 1980s and 1990s, musicians began using electronic and digital devices to imitate the sound of the Hammond, because the vintage Hammond organ is heavy and hard to transport. By the 1990s and 2000s digital signal processing and sampling technologies allowed for better imitation of the original Hammond sound.

Abbey Is Blue - Abbey Lincoln

Rating: 7/10

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Record Label: Riverside

Year Released: 1959 (Remastering 1998)

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Ώτα μου καλημέρα,

Λόγω ανειλημμένων υποχρεώσεων σας άφησα στην ξεραϊλα για αρκετές μέρες.

Ελπίζω να επανορθώσω αποζημιώνοντάς σας μ' αυτό το αγαπημένο μου και εξαιρετικό δισκάκι της Abbey Lincoln που έφυγε το περασμένο καλοκαίρι (14 Αυγούστου).

Απ' τις πιο χαρακτηριστικές δουλειές της Lincoln (το πραγματικό όνομα της οποίας είναι Anna Marie Wooldridge) που περιέχει μία απ' τις καλύτερες (vocal) εκδοχές του Afro-Blue (Mongo Santamaria), το "Brother Where Are You" (ένα απ' τα καλύτερα θέματα που έχει γράψει ο φοβερός Oscar Brown Jr.), το κλάσικ του Kurt Weil "Lost In Stars" (για την ακρίβεια Kurt Weil:Μουσική, Maxwell Anderson:Στίχοι) κ.α. Στους προγευστικούς ψηφιακούς αναπαραγωγούς θα βρείτε δύο λιγότερο "γνωστά" -τρόπος του λέγειν- (αλλά τα πιο αγαπημένα μου) θέματα του δίσκου. To "Let Up" (σύνθεση της Lincoln) και το  ανατριχιαστικό "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise" (Hammerstein, Romberg).

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Let Up - Abbey Lincoln


Softly As In A Morning Sunrise - Abbey Lincoln

About Abbey Lincoln

Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), better known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was a jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. Lincoln was unusual in that she wrote and performed her own compositions, expanding the expectations of jazz audiences.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was one of many singers influenced by Billie Holiday. She often could be found at the Blue Note in New York City.

With Ivan Dixon, she co-starred in Nothing But a Man, an independent film written and directed by Michael Roemer. She also co-starred with Sidney Poitier and Beau Bridges in 1968's For Love of Ivy, and received a 1969 Golden Globe nomination for her appearance in the film.

Lincoln also appeared in the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It, for which she famously wore a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in Gentleman Prefer Blondes and interpreted the theme song, working with Benny Carter.

Lincoln sang on the 1960s landmark jazz civil rights recording, We Insist! – Freedom Now Suite (1960) by jazz musician Max Roach and was married to him from 1962 to 1970. Especially since this album, Abbey Lincoln was connected to the political fight against racism in the United States.

In the 1990 Spike Lee movie Mo' Better Blues 1990, she played young Bleek Gilliams' mother, who was very insistent that Bleek (played as an adult by Denzel Washington) come inside their house and practice his trumpet instead of playing outside with his friends.

In 2003, she received the National Endowment for the Arts NEA Jazz Masters Award.

Lincoln died on August 14, 2010 in Manhattan at the age of 80. Her death was announced by her brother, David Wooldridge, who told the New York Times that Lincoln had died in her Manhattan nursing home after suffering deteriorating health for years following open heart surgery in 2007. No cause of death was officially given. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered.

Reeled & Skinned - Red Snapper

Rating: 6/10
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Record Label: Wrap
Year Released: 1995
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Ώτα μου καλημέρα, καλή εβδομάδα και ευτυχισμένος ο καινούργιος θρόνος.

Acid jazz, trip hop και dub από το "μακρινό" 1995 και τους Red Snapper, οι πιο απλά τους David Ayers (κιθάρα), Richard Thair (τύμπανα) και Ali Friend (κοντραμπάσο). Πρόκειται για συλλογή και remixes από τα Ep τους "The Snapper", "Swank" και "Hot Flush".
Στο "In Deep" συμμετέχει στα φωνητικά η Beth Orton.

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Swank - Red Snapper


In Deep - Red Snapper (feat. Beth Orton)


About The Red Snapper

Red Snapper are a British instrumental band founded in London in 1993 by Ali Friend (double bass), Richard Thair (drums), and David Ayers (guitar). The three core members are also joined by various guest musicians and vocalists on different records. According to music journalist, Jason Ankeny (Allmusic) "the British acid jazz trio were notable for their pioneering synthesis of acoustic instruments and electronic textures".

The band released three EPs before signing to Warp Records for their debut album, Prince Blimey (1996). The band were a somewhat unusual feature of Warp Records' 1990s roster: in contrast to the studio-oriented IDM the record label primarily dealt in, the band had a live and organic sound: a smoky mixture of dub, jazz and all tempos of breakbeat from trip hop to drum and bass. In 1997, Red Snapper (along with the Foo Fighters) supported The Prodigy on their Fat of the Land tour in the UK

For their follow-up Making Bones they were joined by jungle MC Det, Byron Wallen the jazz trumpeter and singer Alison David. The latter was replaced by Karim Kendra by their third album, Our Aim Is to Satisfy (2000).

In early 2002, Red Snapper announced its dissolution.

Also in 2002 the various artists compilation album It's All Good was released. It included a previously unreleased track, "Ultraviolet", which was also included on Red Snapper, a compilation of unreleased and rare Red Snapper tracks released by Lo Recordings in 2003.

Later in 2003, an album of remixes was released, Redone, which included tracks remixed by the Snapper themselves. Ayers and Felix Tod were credited as The Creation, Thair remixed "Ultraviolet", and the "Odd Man Out" (Odd Man remix) was done by Friend, Gavin Clark and Ted Barnes. The last track included vocals. Later the Flameboy Records (owned by Jake Williams, former RS keyboard player) released a 4-track vinyl called "RedOne", which included three tracks from Redone and a previously unreleased Red Snapper track entitled "Drill" featuring MC Det.

Red Snapper reformed in 2007 - this was posted on their MySpace page:

After 6 years apart concentrating on different projects, Red Snapper return. Ali has been working with Beth Orton and his new band Clayhill. David has been focusing on writing music for TV with his work featuring on the highly acclaimed BBC show 'The Tribe'. Rich has been working with Jakeone on their band Toob, with Rennie Pilgrem and the TCR Allstars and Bomb the Bass.

They decided to rejoin before Christmas and after a jam session are back in the recording studio working on new material for their sixth album with saxophonist, Tom Challenger. Red Snapper also appeared at the Bloc Weekend in March 2008. The band released Pale Blue Dot (Lo Recordings) on 2 October 2008.

They appeared on the Glade Stage at Glastonbury 2009.