Angel Eyes (Gene Ammons album)

Angel Eyes is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons compiling sessions recorded in 1960 and 1962 and released on the Prestige label in 1965.^[4]

Angel Eyes
Studio album by Gene Ammons
Released	1965
Recorded	June 17, 1960, and September 5, 1962
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz
Length	36:25
Label	Prestige PR 7369
Producer	Esmond Edwards
Gene Ammons chronology
Velvet Soul (1964) Angel Eyes (1965) Sock! (1965)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating, "Music from two different occasions are combined on this CD reissue... 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".^[1]

Track listing

1. "Gettin' Around" (Gene Ammons) – 6:46
2. "Blue Room" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 5:34
3. "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 5:55
4. "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) – 8:45
5. "Water Jug" (Frank Wess) – 5:10
6. "It's the Talk of the Town" (Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes) – 4:15

Note

• Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs New Jersey on June 17, 1960 (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5) and September 5, 1962 (tracks 3 & 6)

Personnel

• Gene Ammons – tenor saxophone
• Frank Wess – flute, (tracks 1, 2 and 4) – tenor saxophone, (track 5)
• Johnny "Hammond" Smith – organ (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5)
• Mal Waldron (tracks 3 & 6) – piano
• Doug Watkins (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5), Wendell Marshall (tracks 3 & 6) – bass
• Art Taylor (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5), Ed Thigpen (tracks 3 & 6) – drums

References

1. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed December 13, 2012
2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 9. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
3. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
4. Gene Ammons discography accessed December 13, 2012