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Juggin' Around

Gene Ammons

Recorded	1958
Label	Vee Jay Records
Released	1958
Personnel	8 credited players
Discogs	master 442725

The record

Vee Jay stacks three tenors deep here, Frank Foster and Frank Wess crowding Ammons' broad, blues-soaked horn while Adderley and Green thicken the brass. Tommy Flanagan's trio keeps the packed stand swinging rather than cluttered.

Session personnel

Eddie Jones — bass
Nat Adderley — cornet
Albert Heath — drums
Tommy Flanagan — piano
Frank Foster — tenor saxophone
Gene Ammons — tenor saxophone
Frank Wess — tenor saxophone, flute
Bennie Green — trombone

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

1962	Vee Jay Records · SR 3024 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Monarch Pressing earliest on file
1962	Vee Jay Records · VJLP 3024 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Reissue, Mono
1962	Vee Jay Records · LP 3024 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, Microgrove Long Playing
1962	Vee Jay Records · SR 3024 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Microgrove Long Playing
1964	Vee Jay Records — STEREO
1980	Affinity · AFF 50 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1981	Affinity · L6-AF 176 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1981	Affinity · L6 AF176 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1981	Vee Jay Records · RJL-6010 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1985	Yes To Jazz · 10049 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1985	Yes To Jazz · 20049 — Cassette, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1986	Atlantis (2) · ATS 1 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1986	The Suite Beat Music Group · SBCD2005 — CD, Reissue