Gene Ammons
Eighteen records covering Gene Ammons's prolific 1969-to-1976 comeback on Prestige and the posthumous releases drawn from sessions of that period. 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.
Ten records covering the first three years of Ammons's prison-release comeback. The Boss Is Back!, Brother Jug!, The Black Cat!, the long sequence of Prestige dates with Idris Muhammad and Buster Williams, and the records that re-established him as one of the best-selling soul-jazz tenors of the early 1970s.
Eight records covering Ammons's final years and the posthumous archival releases drawn from his last sessions. Big Bad Jug, the Sonny Stitt reunion God Bless Jug and Sonny, the Montreux date with Dexter Gordon, and the late Prestige releases that appeared after his death in 1974.