Gene Ammons - Angel Eyes free for downloading

Gentler side of Jug. What a beautiful soul, warmth, and a feeling that just reaches out and caresses you. Long will we remember the Jug.

I was perhaps about 10 or 11 when I first heard this song maybe 1967 or so and to this day this song this sound this tenor sax .Yes I like Stanley, Cannonball, Sonny , Hank to name a few I forgot Coltrane and Grover but Gene omg..... yeah... All Jazz Masters. He was my first love. Thank you Gene Ammons thank you very much.

This is just PURE beauty ! The cover photo is exquisite, too.

This one is definitely a gem from Ammons.

Gene "Jughead" Ammons' best friend, Frank Casey, was like a 2nd father to me. Taught me everything I know about Jazz. He had a Jazz radio show back in the mid to late 60s and used to run around with Jug and all the other New York Jazz legends who used to hang out together. He had a million amazing and hilarious stories about them. One of them was about how Jug got his name. It involved him trying on a hat in Harlem with the other musicians and it wouldn't fit his head because, they said, it was as big as a jug, so they stuck him with that name. He also told me the secret to how Jug managed to get such a smooth sound to his sax which so many other sax players of his day were envious of. Before going out on stage to play a set, he poured water in his sax and swirl it around to clean it out, but instead of pouring it out then drying it with a cloth like most other musicians, he would just pour it out and leave it wet, producing his signature, smooth sound. Damn... I learned so much from Casey. Rest in peace, pops...

Thank you for sharing! It is very fine pre weekend music for the Mekong region!

Perfect pitch throughout!

The beauty of these masterpieces are priceless and holds so much memory of our youth that can never be forgotten...and always fondly relived in our hearts. Gone but not forgotten. 60's in Chicago on the near northside.

A Masterpiece of Music.  Jug OWNS this tune!

He left too soon live was excellent. Saxophonist

Grew up on this and many more classic recordings. Bless my father for educating me with out intent. I would lay in bed and hear the sounds of Mr Ammons ,Count Bassie, Billy Ekstine, Oscar Peterson, Carman McCrae, Dexter Gordon and so many more. Mr Ammons could make you hear the words of the tune because he sang through his horn. Loved his playing at 4.00am...... Miss you Pop! Miss life as it was back then. Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons Out in the cold again.........liston

Top tenor sax man in the day .. Angel Eyes..

One of my fav's by him. Caught him at the Drexel Hotel in Chicago.

Yeah! I had this Album too years ago, in Africa. Here am I, in the US downloading this piece of music I have been fascinated by, again. Thanks Tony

Yes he was gone too Soon great player

Thank you. It's this sound that made life a little more sane and bearable while growing up in apartheid South Africa. RIP Jug, love & memories from Cape Town.

When I first heard Gene Ammons I thought he was talking to me through his sax and I still do.