"New" Gene Ammons footage

[Mark Stryker]

Totally new to me. Footage of Jug from the early '70s, apparently from a Chicago public television program produced by Dan Morgenstern. YouTube posting went up today and says Dan only recently found the tape. Yes, it's late period Jug and there's Varitone, etc. But still, holy shit! Plus, you get to hear Jug speak. With King Kolax, George Freeman, Wallace Burton, Chester Williamson, Bob Guthrie.

Anybody know if this has ever circulated before and do any of you Chicagoans remember the program?

 

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

oh god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

Jsngry do you know this dawg, he is in your area, I send him a congratually message (with some questions, eg format of what he transfered)- [ I didn't mention you]

Should i alert him of the dexter gordon error too- the descrip says clearly says on tha one: """"This is the last appearance of Dexter Gordon, and was taped just weeks before his death in 1969 and aired in a memorial setting"""" {CLOSE QUOTE}

 

 

Do you guys wanna organize a live youtube viewing party rt now?- is everybody having dinner?  Oooo you're gonna like this thread..............

 

 

 

 

Edited January 22, 2020 by chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

The solo pieces during the credits- thats ammons // dex doing induvisual solo credit bumper music, no?

[Shrdlu]

Must check out the Ammons video. He had a husky tone that we tenor players would like to have.

Thanks for posting.

[JSngry]

Whoa....

16 hours ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

Jsngry do you know this dawg, he is in your area...

Nope, he's in Round Rock, which is basically Austin...a little bit closer than San Diego is to Oxnard, distance-wise, and a whole other world "culturally".

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

thats hella far!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

just was talkin w/ my dawg about the Varitone.............we're all glad it disappeared, right-  Eddie Harris used it to best effect, no?  Notice in the Dexter clip he doesn't go near it.  I was also surmising Hank never went near the thing

Edited January 23, 2020 by chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez

[JSngry]

Not really glad it disappeared, but not unhappy. It's just a sound, albeit a limited one.

Check out Sonny Stitt using it on that live Left Bank thing, that's the perfect use of it. Let Don Patterson scream as loud as he wants to and you can still be on top of it. Momentum on top of momentum, Billy James working hard for his money!

Lee Konitz used it to good effect also, believe it or not. He seemed to use it to obliterate the acoustic sound and to put out just the electric sound. For the way he played, that was interesting.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

Konitz used it?  funny joke ha ha jsngry 

[JSngry]

Not a joke. For realz!

There's a live thing or two with it on as well.

[Chuck Nessa]

IIRC, this one too -

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i have never seen that lp cover or heard that of that title before.  my fault for never going through konitz discog with a fine tooth comb multiple times.  

next youre gonna be telling me Warne rocked it, jk jk jkjkjkjk JK

[JSngry]

Hey. look - it's Don Byas!

 

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

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[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

The Jug you've never heard:

 

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I really want to get a Gene Ammons biography, so I've been looking through all the Gene Ammons threads to see if there was one mentioned. And that was nearly as good as reading one (well, not really, but it WAS nice).

So, IS there an Ammons bio?

MG

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

its gone