Artist: Gene Ammons
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Blowing the Blues Away 1944-1947
Year: 2002
Tracks: 19
Young Jug
Year: 1994
Tracks: 20
The Gene Ammons Story: The 78 Era
Year: 1994
Tracks: 27
Big Sound
Year: 1991
Tracks: 4
Groove Blues
Year: 1958
Tracks: 4
Factor Ammons, wHO had a brobdingnagian and immediately recognizable tone on tenor, was a selfsame flexile player populace Health Governing body could play bebop with the best (always battling his friend Cub Stitt to a tie up) in prison term was an influence on the R&B man. Or so of his put renditions became hits and, despite iI unfortunate interruptions in his vocation, Ammons remained a pop attractive force for 25 years.
Boy of the capital letter boogie-woogie pianoforte thespian Albert Ammons, Factor Ammons (wHO was nicknamed "Jug") leftfield Chicago at old age 18 to work with King Kolax's dance orchestra. He in the beginning came to fame as a key soloist with Billy Eckstine's orchestra during 1944-1947, trading off with Dexter Gordon on the renowned Eckstine record Blowing the Blues Off. Other than a renowned stint with Woody Herman's Third Ruck in 1949 and an endeavor at co-leading a 2 tenor group in the early '50s with Sonny Stitt, Ammons worked as a bingle throughout his calling, arranging frequently (most notably for Prestigiousness) in settings ranging from quartets and organ combos to all-star jam sessions. Dose problems kept him in prison house during a good deal of 1958-1960 and, due to a peculiarly unshakable judgment of conviction, 1962-1969. When Ammons returned to the scene in 1969, he opened up his stylus a morsel, including some of the emotional cries of the new wave piece utilizing noisome musical rhythm sections, merely he was still able to shinny Lad Stitt on his have terms. Ironically the shoemaker's last call that he always recorded (just a short time ahead he was diagnosed with terminal malignant neoplastic disease) was "Adios."
Eddie Izzard
