Gene Ammons
Eighteen records covering Gene Ammons's peak Prestige and Verve years before his second incarceration: the Boss Tenors run, the Stitt and McDuff collaborations, and the long sequence of jam-session and small-group Prestige dates. Split into two parts to keep the album browse manageable.
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This era has been split into two parts to keep each browse view manageable. Each part has full reviews, personnel details, Apple Music audio previews, and album art.
Nine records covering the Boss Tenor run on Prestige and the parallel two-tenor and small-group sessions on Verve, Argo, Pacific Jazz, and Vee-Jay. The two Sonny Stitt summits, the Jack McDuff collaborations, and the small-group records that made Ammons one of the best-selling jazz musicians of the early 1960s.
Nine records covering the dense 1962 Prestige sessions and the archival releases drawn from that period. The soul-summit dates, the Jack McDuff partnership, the Moodsville ballad sessions, and the previously unissued material that surfaced after Ammons's 1962 arrest.