Latest Release
- 3 FEB 2024
- 20 Songs
- High Ideals · 2014
- Canadian Sunset · 1957
- Boss Tenor (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) · 1957
- Canadian Sunset · 1957
- Boss Tenor (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) · 1957
- Boss Tenors: Straight Ahead From Chicago August 1961 · 1960
- Boss Tenors: Straight Ahead From Chicago August 1961 · 1960
- Red Top · 1976
- Legends of Acid Jazz · 1997
- Boss Tenor (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) · 1960
Singles & EPs
- 2014
Live Albums
- 2023
- 2021
- 2015
- 2014
About Gene Ammons
The son of boogie woogie piano pioneer Albert Ammons, saxophonist Gene Ammons did some pioneering of his own. Taking the lessons he learned from swing and early bebop, he forged a new stylistic vein known as the “Chicago school,” making the tenor sax an ever more personal, expressive instrument. The strong influence of R&B in Ammons's playing also put him in the thick of the soul jazz movement in the late '60s and early '70s, before he succumbed to cancer in 1974.
- HOMETOWN
- Chicago, IL, United States
- BORN
- 14 April 1925
- GENRE
- Jazz