GENE AMMONS "NICE AN' COOL", AP, LE, NE, SO, PRESTIGE REISSUE SERIES, RVG, 180G
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GENE AMMONS "NICE AN' COOL"
2017 ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS 'PRESTIGE REISSUES', 180G LP, SERIES LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES-THIS IS NUMBER 66, SOLD-OUT EDITION, ORIGINAL RECORDED IN 1961 AT RUDY VAN GELDER'S STUDIO, ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ, CATLOG NUMBER MV 18, MASTERED BY KEVIN GRAY AT COHEARENT AUDIO USING THE ORIGINAL ANALOG MASTER TAPES, PLATED BY GARY MALSTROM, PRESSED AT QRP, SALINA, KS, DELUXE HIGH-GLOSS COVER.
"A 1961 SET OF STANDARDS HEAVY ON THE BALLADS, NICE AN' COOL IS PRIME GENE AMMONS. IN FRONT OF A SYMPATHETIC PIANO-BASS-DRUMS TRIO (RICHARD WYANDS, DOUG WATKINS, AND THE GREAT J.C. HEARD, RESPECTIVELY). AMMONS' BRILLIANTLY SOULFUL TENOR SAXOPHONE REALLY STRETCHES OUT ON THE FAMILIAR MELODIES, BUT THE RELATIVELY CONCISE ARRANGEMENTS (ALL OF THE EIGHT TRACKS ARE BETWEEN THREE AND EIGHT MINUTES, WITH MOST HOVERING AROUND THE FIVE-MINUTE MARK) DON'T ALLOW HIM TO WANDER TOO FAR AFIELD AS HE OCCASIONALLY DOES ON LESS STRUCTURED SESSIONS. NICE AN' COOL IS FIRST AND FOREMOST A MOOD ALBUM, WITH THE UNITY OF SOUND MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES, BUT AMMONS PARTICULARLY SHINES ON THE EXTENDED OPENER, A TENDER, RESTRAINED VERSION OF THE MUSIC MAN'S "TIL THERE WAS YOU" THAT SIDESTEPS THE MAWKISHNESS OF MANY INTERPRETATIONS IN FAVOR OF A DIGNIFIED GRACE. THE BACKING TRIO IS EXCELLANT THROUGHOUT."
'IF YOU SEARCH FOR DEFINITION OF ANALOGUE SOUND, THAT'S IT! THIS SOUNDS SO INCREDIBLY REAL AND HAS THAT SWEET SPOT IN EVERY FREQUENCY! ALL THIS NEXT TO THE INCREDIBLE GENIUS OF GENE AMMON'S. LOVE IT!!"
"DEEP DARK AND LACQUER SMOOTH, WITH EVERYTHING WHERE IT SHOULD BE. ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS NOT ONLY REMASTERED THIS ALBUM TO PERFECTION BUT THEY HAVE ALSO MADE MY SYSTEM SOUND EVEN MORE FANTASTIC THAN I THOUGHT IT EVER COULD. THAT MEANS THAT ALL OF THOSE OTHER RECORDS THAT MADE ME QUESTION THE QUALITY OF MY SYSTEM ARE ACTUALLY WORSE THAN I THOUGHT. THIS ALBUM SOUNDS THE WAY I REMEMBER VINYL DYNAMICS SOUNDED BACK BEFORE CDS. SONICALLY THIS ALBUM IS SO TONALITY RICH THAT IT WILL BE SAD TO LISTEN TO OTHER ALBUMS THAT DON'T COME CLOSE TO IT!"
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