Boss Tenors Explained

Boss Tenors
Type:Studio
Artist:Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons
Cover:Boss Tenors.jpg
Released:1961
Recorded:August 27, 1961
Chicago, Illinois
Genre:Jazz
Length:38:36
Label:Verve
V/V6 8426
Producer:Creed Taylor
Chronology:Sonny Stitt
Prev Title:Dig Him!
Prev Year:1961
Next Title:Stitt Meets Brother Jack
Next Year:1962

Boss Tenors (subtitled Straight Ahead from Chicago August 1961) is an album by saxophonists Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt recorded in Chicago in 1961 and originally released on the Verve label.[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review stated "Tenor saxophonists Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt co-led a small group in 1950, and this follow-up, taped in the studio in 1961, finds the two picking up where they left off".[2]

Track listing

  1. "Blues Up and Down" (Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt) - 8:47
  2. "Counter Clockwise" (Sonny Stitt) - 9:38
  3. "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) - 6:30
  4. "The One Before This" (Gene Ammons) - 7:09
  5. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 6:32

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/gene-ammons/catalog/#verve-v-v6-8426 Gene Ammons discography
  2. Dryden, K. Allmusic Review accessed December 10, 2012