All Star Sessions

All Star Sessions is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded between 1950 and 1955 and released on the Prestige label.^[1]

All Star Sessions
Studio album by Gene Ammons
Released	1956
Recorded	March 5 and October 28, 1950; January 13, 1951; and June 16, 1955
Studio	New York City and Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz
Length	54:40
Label	Prestige PRLP 7050
Producer	Bob Weinstock
Gene Ammons chronology
Golden Saxophone (1953) All Star Sessions (1956) The Happy Blues (1956)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]

The Allmusic review by Stewart Mason stated: "A bop classic, All-Star Session was the recording debut of Gene Ammons as a leader with his group the Gene Ammons All-Stars, featuring his fellow tenor saxophonist Sonny Stitt... Those looking to explore Stitt and Ammons' enormous catalogs (both together and separately) could do much worse than starting right here".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, except where indicated.

1. "Woofin' and Tweetin'" (Gene Ammons) – 15:05
2. "Juggernaut" (Ammons) – 10:28
3. "Blues Up and Down" [take 3] – 2:39
4. "Blues Up and Down" [take 1] – 1:28 Bonus track on CD reissue
5. "Blues Up and Down" [take 2] – 2:23 Bonus track on CD reissue
6. "You Can Depend on Me" [take 1] (Charlie Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines) – 2:50
7. "You Can Depend on Me" [take 2] (Carpenter, Dunlap, Hines) – 2:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
8. "Stringin' the Jug" – 5:05
9. "New Blues Up and Down" – 5:07
10. "Bye Bye" (Jimmy Mundy) – 3:02 Bonus track on CD reissue
11. "When I Dream of You" (Carpenter, Hines) – 2:55 Bonus track on CD reissue
12. "A Lover Is Blue" (Carpenter, Mundy, James Oliver Young) – 2:46

Note

• Recorded in New York City on March 5, 1950 (tracks 3–7 & 10), October 28, 1950 (tracks 8, 11 & 12), January 31, 1951 (track 9) and at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack New Jersey on June 15, 1955 (tracks 1 & 2)

Personnel

• Gene Ammons – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Sonny Stitt – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone (tracks 3–10)
• Art Farmer (tracks 1 & 2), Billy Massey (tracks 9 & 10) – trumpet
• Chippy Outcalt – trombone (track 9)
• Lou Donaldson – alto saxophone (tracks 1 & 2)
• Charlie Bateman (track 9), Duke Jordan (tracks 3–7 & 10), Junior Mance (track 8, 11 & 12), Freddie Redd (tracks 1 & 2) – piano
• Addison Farmer (tracks 1 & 2), Tommy Potter (tracks 3–7 & 10), Gene Wright (tracks 8, 9, 11 & 12) – bass
• Art Blakey (track 9), Kenny Clarke (tracks 1 & 2), Jo Jones (tracks 3–7 & 10), Wes Landers (tracks 8, 11 & 12) – drums
• Larry Townsend – vocals (track 9)