Gene Ammons & Dodo Marmarosa
Here’s the type of record that they just don’t make anymore. This ’62 session finds gruff-toned tenor Gene Ammons with bop era disciple Dodo Marmarosa on piano with Sam Jones/b and Marshall Thompson/dr giving tasty support. Ammons rolls in like the San Francisco fog on his session (he’s on about half the songs), and it just doesn’t get any better than the moss on the vine reading of “Georgia” or the joyfully wailing &l… MORE




