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Gene Ammons - Up Tight! (1961) Genre: Jazz

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Up Tight! is a Prestige "2-fer" containing all the music to be found on the original LPs Up Tight! (Prestige 7208) and Boss Soul (Prestige 7445). Recorded in 1961, with Ammons on furlough from prison (he was to spend the bulk of the 60's in jail on narcotics charges), these are, in their own way, very conceptual records built from the record label's ideas for Jug's post-Weinstock blowing sessions. Both sessions here were produced by Esmond Edwards (one of the first African-American to achieve that position in the industry) and they build upon the great popular success of the earlier Prestige albums Boss Tenor and Jug. This is Ammons' tenor plus rhythm accompaniment, relying on a pianist with a light but firm, modern touch, plus a Latin percussionist (soon-to-be-Fania superstar, congalero Ray Barretto) for extra push and cushion, working through a program of ballads, blues and up-tempo pop tunes.

But these records are not predictable as all that. They bring to life the ample meaning the word "swing" has: as a noun, an adverb, an adjective, and, of course, a verb both transitive and intransitive. The feeling of joy, of being freed (even if only temporarily) from a whole host of worries, is most palpable on the October 17 session with Walter Bishop Jr., culminating in renditions of Ellington's "I'm Beginning To See The Light" and Young's "Lester Leaps In" that groove so hard they literally make it difficult to sit still. Groove can be a mysterious thing, because it is such a collective responsibility, but it is here in abundance, even on the more low-key Patti Bown session. Couple this with the effortless soulfulness of the playing, and you have the chimera that less-skilled hard bop players were and still are after. I don't believe it make me a simpleton to praise this music by calling it "powerfully upbeat"; even the ballads and slow blues are suffused with so much tenderness that Jug, unburdening himself with true magnanimity, transforms whatever melancholy is pent-up within them into something nearly beyond fulfilling.

Personnel:

Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone)

Walter Bishop, Jr., Patti Brown (piano)

Arthur Davis, George Duvivier (bass)

Arthur Taylor (drums)

Ray Barretto (congas)

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on October 17 & 18, 1961. Originally released on Prestige (7208).

Tracks:

1. The Breeze And I

2. Carbow

3. Moonglow

4. I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over

5. I'm Beginning To See The Light

6. Jug's Blue Blues

7. Lester Leaps In

8. Five O'Clock Whistle, The

9. I Sold My Heart To The Junkman

10. Song Of The Islands

11. Up Tight

12. Travelin'

13. Soft Summer Breeze

14. Don't Go To Strangers

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