Prestige · in the Kissa Kissa racks
Free Again
| Recorded | 1972 |
|---|---|
| Label | Prestige |
| Released | 1972 |
| Personnel | 30 credited players |
| Discogs | master 629348 |
The record
Cut after Ammons served a decade-long narcotics sentence, this session finds the big Chicago tenor sound reunited with Prestige and wrapped in a heavier, funk-tinged rhythm section -- Joe Sample and Chuck Rainey among them. A comeback record in the truest sense, its title says it plainly.
Session personnel
- Robert Saravia — bass
- Robert Norris — congas
- Candy Finch — drums
- Paul Humphrey — drums
- Chuck Rainey — electric bass [fender]
- David Duke — french horn
- Henry Sigismonti — french horn
- Arthur Adams — guitar
- Dennis Budimir — guitar
- Dwight Dickerson — piano
- Joe Sample — piano
- Ernie Watts — reeds
- Herman Riley — reeds
- Jack Nimitz — reeds
- Jerome Richardson — reeds
- Pete Christlieb — reeds
- Red Holloway — reeds
- Gene Ammons — tenor saxophone
- Benny Powell — trombone
- Britt Woodman — trombone
- Grover Mitchell — trombone
- Jimmy Cleveland — trombone
- Mike Wimberly — trombone
- Al Aarons — trumpet
- Buddy Childers — trumpet
- Cat Anderson — trumpet
- Gene Goe — trumpet
- John Audino — trumpet
- Reunald Jones — trumpet
- John Thomas Johnson — tuba
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
| 1972 | Prestige · PR 10040 — Vinyl, LP, Album earliest on file |
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| 1972 | Prestige |
| 1972 | Prestige · PR 10040 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo |
| 1972 | Bellaphon · PR 10040 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1972 | Prestige · PR 10040 — Vinyl, LP, Album |
| 1972 | Prestige · PR 10040 — Vinyl, LP, Album |
| 1972 | Prestige · PR 10040 — Vinyl, LP, Album |
| 1972 | Prestige · PR 10040 — Vinyl, LP, Album |
| 1973 | Prestige · LPP-88124 — Vinyl, LP, Album |
| 1973 | Prestige · LPP-88124 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo |
Follow the players
Robert Norris also plays on
Candy Finch also plays on