Angel Eyes is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons compiling sessions recorded in 1960 and 1962 and released on the Prestige label in 1965.Gene Ammons discography accessed December 13, 2012
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".Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed December 13, 2012
Track listing "Gettin' Around" (Gene Ammons) – 6:46 "Blue Room" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 5:34 "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 5:55 "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) – 8:45 "Water Jug" (Frank Wess) – 5:10 "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
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