Latest Release
- 24 APR 2024
- 3 Songs
- Boss Tenors: Straight Ahead From Chicago August 1961 · 1960
- 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
- glimlach (Live Laren '73) · 2024
- glimlach (Live Laren '73) · 2024
- glimlach (Live Laren '73) · 2024
- The Ultimate Jazz Archive, Vol. II [Audiophile Edition] · 2024
- The Ultimate Jazz Archive, Vol. II [Audiophile Edition] · 2024
- For Beautiful People · 2023
Artist Playlists
- From bebop to Blaxploitation, a genealogy of funk is contained in his career.
Singles & EPs
- 2021
Appears On
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