This Jazz Feature is a short concert performed in Sweden at the Ahus Jazz Festival in July of 1973 with the great tenor saxophonist playing with pick-up rhythm section of US ex-pats.The people involved with Mr. Ammons are Horace Parlan on piano, Red Mitchell on bass and a fairly unknown drummer named Ed Jones. They provide Gene Ammons with the right backing and although he had about a year to live (he died at age 49 of bone cancer)one would never suspect he was gravely ill. The tunes are all familiar to the band and there was obviously no rehearsal but it wouldn't matter with musicians of this calibre. This is a rare recording and gives one to hear one of the all-time greats on the tenor saxophone....Happy Birthday Gene "Jug" Ammons. Ammons was born in Chicago on April 14, 1925.Dig Jug!

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