Boss Tenors

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Boss Tenors
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Studio album by
Released1961
RecordedAugust 27, 1961
Chicago, Illinois
Genre Jazz
Length38:36
Label Verve
V/V6 8426
Producer Creed Taylor
Sonny Stitt chronology
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(1961)
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(1961)
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(1962)
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(1961)
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(1961)
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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. [3]

Contents

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". [1]

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

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References

  1. 1 2 Dryden, K. Allmusic Review accessed December 10, 2012
  2. Down Beat: February 15, 1962 vol. 29, no. 4
  3. Gene Ammons discography accessed December 10, 2012