Gene Ammons - Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux (1973) Flac

Tracklist

1.Yardbird Suite
2.Since I Fell For You
3.New Sonny's Blues
4.Sophisticated Lady
5.Treux Bleu

personnel :

Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone
Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone
Nat Adderley - trumpet
Hampton Hawes - electric piano
Bob Cranshaw - electric bass
Kenny Clarke - drums
Kenneth Nash - congas

Ammons, whose studio recordings of the period were somewhat commercial, is heard in excellent form playing a blues and three standards with the backing of a fine rhythm section: Hampton Hawes (who unfortunately sticks to electric piano), electric bassist Bob Cranshaw, drummer Kenny Clarke and Kenneth Nash on congas. Best of all is a 17-minute blues on which Ammons welcomes fellow tenor Dexter Gordon, cornetist Nat Adderley and altoist Cannonball Adderley; the four horns all get to trade off with each other. This is one of the better late-period Gene Ammons records.~ Scott Yanow