| LC control no. | nr 90001051 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ammons, Gene |
| Variant(s) | Ammons, Eugene Ammons, Jug Van, Skeetz |
| See also | Gene Ammons All Star Sextet |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1925-04-14 |
| Death date | 1974-08-06 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz |
| Affiliation | Billy Eckstine Big Band |
| Profession or occupation | Saxophonists Jazz musicians Band directors |
| Found in | His Jug & Sonny [SR] 1959: label (Gene Ammons) container (jazz saxophonist; a year younger than Sonny Stitt) New Grove dict. of jazz, 1988 (Ammons, Gene (Eugene; Jug); b. Chicago, Apr. 14, 1925; d. Chicago, Aug. 6, 1974) Ammons, G. All star sessions [SR] 197-: label (Gene Ammons All Star Sextet) De Curtis, E. Come back to Sorrento [SR] 1948: label (Skeetz Van) All about jazz WWW site, Oct. 30, 2008: Jazz bulletin board; Talk jazz; Artists and bands (Gene Ammons; moonlighted during the recording ban of 1948, recording under the name of Skeets Van) African American National Biography, accessed June 15, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Ammons, Gene; Eugene Ammons; “Jug”; saxophonist, bandleader, jazz musician; born 14 April 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; studied music at Du Sable High School; played in the singer Billy Eckstine's big band, also known as the first bop big band (1944-1947); was featured in the movie “Rhythm in a Riff” (1946) and alongside the trumpeter Miles Davis in Chicago (1947); achieved immediate success with the tuneful blues “Red Top” (1947); replaced Stan Getz in Woody Herman's Second Herd (1949); co-led a quintet with Stitt mainly at Birdland, New York (1950-1955); finest recordings, made for the Prestige label, are two takes of “You Can Depend on Me” and three of “Blues Up and Down” (1950); recorded the outstanding album “Blue Gene” (1958); was convicted for possession of narcotics and sent to the Statesville Penitentiary near Joliet, Illinois (1958-1960); recorded the album “Boss Tenors” as co-leader with Stitt (1961); was arrested again (1962-1969); recorded two new albums, “The Boss Is Back” and “Brother Jug!”; performed at the Ahus Jazz Festival, Sweden (1974); died 06 August 1974 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) |
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