Groove Blues

1961 studio album by Gene Ammons

Groove Blues

Studio album by

Gene Ammons

Released

1961

Recorded

January 3, 1958
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

Genre

Jazz

Length

49:20

Label

Prestige
PRLP 7201

Producer

Bob Weinstock

Gene Ammons chronology

The Big Sound
(1958)

Groove Blues
(1961)

Blue Gene
(1958)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

Groove Blues is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1958 and released on the Prestige label.^[3] The album was recorded at the same session that produced The Big Sound.

Reception

A review for AllMusic by Scott Yanow stated: "On Jan. 3, 1958, Gene Ammons led one of his last all-star jam sessions for Prestige. The most notable aspect to this date (which resulted in two albums of material) is that it featured among its soloists John Coltrane, on alto".^[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron, except as indicated

"Ammon Joy" - 13:19
"Groove Blues" - 9:35
"Jug Handle" - 10:11
"It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 11:32

Personnel

Gene Ammons - tenor saxophone
Jerome Richardson - flute (tracks 1-3)
John Coltrane - alto saxophone (tracks 1, 2 & 4)
Paul Quinichette - tenor saxophone (track 1 & 2)
Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone (tracks 1 & 2)
Mal Waldron - piano
George Joyner - bass
Art Taylor - drums

References

^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed December 7, 2012
^ 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.
^ Gene Ammons discography accessed December 7, 2012

Gene Ammons

Studio albums

Live albums

Albert Ammons

v t e Pepper Adams
Albums as leader	Baritones and French Horns/Dakar (1957) Critics' Choice (1957) Pepper Adams Quintet (1957) The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams (1957) The Pepper-Knepper Quintet (1958) Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963) Mean What You Say (1966) Encounter! (1968) Ephemera (1973) Julian (1975) Twelfth & Pingree (1975) Baritone Madness (1977) Reflectory (1978) Be-Bop? The Master (1980) Urban Dreams (1981) California Cookin' (1983) Conjuration: Fat Tuesday's Session (1983) Generations (1985) The Adams Effect (1985)
With Donald Byrd	10 to 4 at the 5 Spot (1958) Off to the Races (1959) Byrd in Hand (1959) At the Half Note Cafe (1960) Motor City Scene (1960) Out of This World (1961) Chant (1961) The Cat Walk (1961) Royal Flush (1961) The Creeper (1967)

Pepper Adams

Albums as leader

Baritones and French Horns/Dakar (1957)
Critics' Choice (1957)
Pepper Adams Quintet (1957)
The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams (1957)
The Pepper-Knepper Quintet (1958)
Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963)
Mean What You Say (1966)
Encounter! (1968)
Ephemera (1973)
Julian (1975)
Twelfth & Pingree (1975)
Baritone Madness (1977)
Reflectory (1978)
Be-Bop?
The Master (1980)
Urban Dreams (1981)
California Cookin' (1983)
Conjuration: Fat Tuesday's Session (1983)
Generations (1985)
The Adams Effect (1985)

With Donald Byrd

10 to 4 at the 5 Spot (1958)
Off to the Races (1959)
Byrd in Hand (1959)
At the Half Note Cafe (1960)
Motor City Scene (1960)
Out of This World (1961)
Chant (1961)
The Cat Walk (1961)
Royal Flush (1961)
The Creeper (1967)

v t e Paul Quinichette
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Moods (1954) Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette (and John Coltrane, 1957) For Basie (1957) On the Sunny Side (1957) The Chase Is On (with Charlie Rouse, 1957) Basie Reunion (1958) Like Basie! (1959)
With Count Basie	Basie Jazz (1952) Dance Session Album No. 2 (1952) The Count! (1952) The Swinging Count! (1952)
With others	The Big Sound (Gene Ammons, 1958) Groove Blues (Gene Ammons, 1958) Kansas City Revisited (Bob Brookmeyer, 1958) An Evening with Billie Holiday (1952) Lady Sings the Blues (Billie Holiday, 1956) Wheelin' & Dealin' (Prestige All-Stars, 1957) Sarah Vaughan (1955) The Dealers (Mal Waldron, 1964) Blazing Ballads (Dinah Washington, 1951) After Hours with Miss "D" (Dinah Washington, 1953–54) For Lady (Webster Young, 1957)

v t e Mal Waldron
Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Mal-1 (1956) Mal/2 (1957) The Dealers (1957) Mal/3: Sounds (1958) Just Wailin' (1958) Mal/4: Trio (1958) Left Alone (1959) Impressions (1959) The Quest (1961) Sweet Love, Bitter (1967) Ursula (1969) Free at Last (1969) Tokyo Bound (1970) Tokyo Reverie (1970) Blood and Guts (1970) Spanish Bitch (1970 The Opening (1970) Mal: Live 4 to 1 (1970) The Call (1971) First Encounter (1971) Number Nineteen (1971) Black Glory (1971) Mal Waldron Plays the Blues (1971) Signals (1971) Journey Without End (1971) Blues for Lady Day (1972) A Little Bit of Miles (1972) Jazz a Confronto 19 (1972) A Touch of the Blues (1972) Mal Waldron on Steinway (1972) Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet (1972) The Whirling Dervish (1972) Meditations (1972) Up Popped the Devil (1973) Hard Talk (1974) Moods (1977) Mingus Lives (1979) Mal 81 (1981) Live at Dreher, Paris 1981 (1981) What It Is (1981) One Entrance, Many Exits (1982) In Retrospect (1982) Breaking New Ground (1983) Mal Waldron Plays Eric Satie (1983) You and the Night and the Music (1983) Encounters (1984) Dedication (1985) Sempre Amore (1986) Left Alone '86 (1986) Update (1986) The Git Go – Live at the Village Vanguard (1986) The Seagulls of Kristiansund (1986) Our Colline's a Treasure (1987) Remembering the Moment (1987) The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil (1987) Mal, Dance and Soul (1987) Evidence (1988) Art of the Duo (1988) No More Tears (For Lady Day) (1988) Crowd Scene (1989) Where Are You? (1989) Quadrologue at Utopia (1989) More Git' Go at Utopia (1989) Spring in Prague (1990) Hot House (1990) I Remember Thelonious (1992) My Dear Family (1993) Waldron-Haslam (1994) After Hours (1994) Communiqué (1994) Mal, Verve, Black & Blue (1994) Two New (1995) Silence (with David Murray, 2001)
With Gene Ammons	Jammin' with Gene (1956) Funky (1957) Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons (1957) The Big Sound (1958) Groove Blues (1958) Velvet Soul (1962) Angel Eyes (1962) Sock! (1962)
With Jackie McLean	4, 5 and 6 (1956) Jackie's Pal (1956) Jackie McLean & Co. (1957) Makin' the Changes (1957) A Long Drink of the Blues (1957) Strange Blues (1957) McLean's Scene (1957)
With Charles Mingus	Jazz Composers Workshop (1954) Mingus at the Bohemia (1955) The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1955) Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) Blues & Roots (1959)
With the Prestige All Stars	Baritones and French Horns (aka, Dakar, 1957) Four Altos (1957) Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors (1957) The Prestige Jazz Quartet (1957) Wheelin' & Dealin' (1957)
With others	All Night Long (Kenny Burrell, 1956) Earthy (Kenny Burrell, 1957) 2 Guitars (Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Raney, 1957) Where? (Ron Carter, 1961) The Teddy Charles Tentet (1956) Coolin' (Teddy Charles, 1957) Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette (John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette, 1957) Coltrane (1957) Dakar (John Coltrane, Pepper Adams & Cecil Payne, 1957) At the Five Spot (Eric Dolphy, both volumes, 1961) Tuba Sounds (Ray Draper, 1957) Hornful of Soul (aka, Catwalk, Bennie Green, 1960) Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (1957) Lady in Satin (Billie Holiday, 1958) So Warm (Etta Jones, 1961) After Hours (Thad Jones, 1957) Olio (Thad Jones, 1957) Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk (1958) Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961) Teo (Teo Macero, 1957) On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette, 1957) Percussion Bitter Sweet (Max Roach, 1961) It's Time (Max Roach, 1962) Speak, Brother, Speak! (Max Roach, 1962) For Lady (Webster Young, 1957)