Latest Release
- 12 APR 2024
- 25 Songs
- Boss Tenor (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) · 1957
- Red Top · 1976
- Boss Tenors: Straight Ahead From Chicago August 1961 · 1960
- Boss Tenors: Straight Ahead From Chicago August 1961 · 1960
- Young Jug · 1994
- Boss Tenors: Straight Ahead From Chicago August 1961 · 1960
- Boss Tenor (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) · 1957
- Canadian Sunset · 1957
- Canadian Sunset · 1957
- Legends of Acid Jazz · 1997
Singles & EPs
- 2014
Live Albums
- 2024
- 2023
- 2021
- 2015
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