Boss Tenors

This article is about the album by Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt recorded in 1961. For the album by Gene Ammons recorded in 1960, see Boss Tenor.

1961 studio album by Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons

Boss Tenors

Studio album by

Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons

Released| 1961
Recorded| August 27, 1961
Chicago, Illinois
Genre| Jazz
Length| 38:36
Label| Verve
V/V6 8426
Producer| Creed Taylor
Sonny Stitt chronology
| Dig Him!
(1961)  | Boss Tenors
(1961)  | Stitt Meets Brother Jack
(1962)

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Gene Ammons chronology
| Dig Him!
(1961)  | Boss Tenors
(1961)  | Just Jug
(1961)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [1]
Down Beat| [2]

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]

## Reception

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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

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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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* Gene Ammons \- tenor saxophone
* Sonny Stitt \- tenor saxophone (tracks 2–5), alto saxophone (tracks 1 and 3)
* John Houston - piano
* Buster Williams \- bass
* George Brown - drums

## References

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1. ^ a b 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

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* t
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Gene Ammons

Studio albums|

* All Star Sessions
* The Happy Blues
* Jammin' with Gene
* Funky
* Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons
* The Big Sound
* Groove Blues
* Blue Gene
* The Swingin'est
* Boss Tenor
* Nice an' Cool
* Jug
* Dig Him!
* Boss Tenors
* Just Jug
* Up Tight!
* Boss Soul!
* Twisting the Jug
* Brother Jack Meets the Boss
* Boss Tenors in Orbit!
* Soul Summit
* Soul Summit Vol. 2
* Late Hour Special
* The Soulful Moods of Gene Ammons
* Blue Groove
* Preachin'
* Jug & Dodo
* Velvet Soul
* Angel Eyes
* Sock!
* Bad! Bossa Nova
* The Boss Is Back!
* Brother Jug!
* Night Lights
* The Black Cat!
* You Talk That Talk!
* My Way
* Free Again
* Got My Own
* Big Bad Jug
* Brasswind
* Together Again for the Last Time
* Goodbye

Live albums|

* Groovin' with Jug
* The Chase!
* Chicago Concert
* God Bless Jug and Sonny
* Left Bank Encores
* Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux
* Gene Ammons in Sweden

Related articles|

* Albert Ammons

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Sonny Stitt

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.

leader or
co-leader|

* Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (1949–50)
* Stitt's Bits (1950)
* Kaleidoscope (1950–52)
* Jazz at the Hi-Hat (1954)
* The Battle of Birdland (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1954)
* Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones (1955)
* Sonny Stitt Plays (1955)
* New York Jazz (1956)
* For Musicians Only (with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz, 1956)
* 37 Minutes and 48 Seconds with Sonny Stitt (c.1956/57)
* Only the Blues (1957)
* Personal Appearance (1957)
* Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers (1957)
* Burnin' (1958)
* Sonny Stitt (1958)
* The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt (1958)
* A Little Bit of Stitt (1959)
* Saxophone Supremacy (1959)
* Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues (1959)
* Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements (1959)
* Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1959)
* Sonny Side Up (with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins, Verve, 1959)
* Sonny Stitt Swings the Most (1959)
* The Hard Swing (1959)
* The Sonny Side of Stitt (1959)
* Previously Unreleased Recordings (1960)
* Sonny Side Up (Roost, 1960)
* Stittsville (1960)
* Stitt in Orbit (1960–62)
* Sonny Stitt at the D. J. Lounge (1961)
* The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt (1961)
* Feelin's (1962)
* Low Flame (1962)
* Rearin' Back (1962)
* Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (1962)
* Stitt Meets Brother Jack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1962)
* Move on Over (1963)
* My Mother's Eyes (1963)
* Now! (1963)
* Primitivo Soul! (1963)
* Salt and Pepper (and Paul Gonsalves, 1963)
* Soul Shack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1963)
* Stitt Goes Latin (1963)
* Stitt Plays Bird (1963)
* My Main Man (and Bennie Green, 1964)
* Shangri-La (with Don Patterson, 1964)
* Sax Expressions (1965)
* Sonny Stitt / Live at Ronnie Scott's (with Dick Morrissey, 1965)
* Soul People (with Booker Ervin and Don Patterson, 1964–69)
* Broadway Soul (1965)
* Inter-Action (and Zoot Sims, 1965)
* Night Crawler (with Don Patterson, 1965)
* Pow! (with Bennie Green, 1965)
* The Matadors Meet the Bull (1965)
* Deuces Wild (1966)
* I Keep Comin' Back! (1966)
* Soul in the Night (and Bunky Green, 1966)
* What's New!!! (1966)
* Parallel-a-Stitt (1967)
* Little Green Apples (1968)
* Soul Electricity! (1968)
* Come Hither (1969)
* Night Letter (1969)
* Black Vibrations (1971)
* Turn It On! (1971)
* 12! (1972)
* Constellation (1972)
* Goin' Down Slow (1972)
* Tune-Up! (1972)
* Mr. Bojangles (1973)
* The Champ (1973)
* Satan (1974)
* Blues for Duke (1975)
* Dumpy Mama (1975)
* Mellow (1975)
* My Buddy: Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons (1975)
* Forecast: Sonny & Red (with Red Holloway, 1976)
* I Remember Bird (1978)
* Stomp Off Let's Go (1976)
* Sonny Stitt with Strings: A Tribute to Duke Ellington (1977)
* In Style (1981)
* The Last Sessions (1982)

And
Gene
Ammons|

* All Star Sessions (1950–55)
* Dig Him! (1961)
* Boss Tenors (1961)
* Boss Tenors in Orbit! (1962)
* Soul Summit (with "Brother"Jack McDuff, 1962)
* You Talk That Talk! (1971)
* God Bless Jug and Sonny (1973)
* Left Bank Encores (1973)
* Together Again for the Last Time (1973)

With
Dizzy
Gillespie|

* The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956)
* Duets (1957)
* The Giants of Jazz (with Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Kai Winding, 1971)
* The Bop Session (1975)

With
Don
Patterson|

* Patterson's People (1964)
* Tune Up! (1964–69)
* The Boss Men (1965)
* Funk You! (1968)
* Brothers-4 (1969)
* Donny Brook (1969)

With
others|

* A Jazz Message (with Art Blakey, 1963)
* In Walked Sonny (with Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, 1975)
* The Oscar Peterson Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957)

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