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Gene Ammons

Gene Ammons (1925 - 1974) was an American jazz tenor saxophone player, and the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons[?].

He was a member of the Billy Eckstine and Woody Herman[?] bands in the mid to late 1940s, and then in 1950 formed a duet with Sonny Stitt[?]. His later career was interrupted by two prison sentences for narcotics possession, the first from 1958 to 1960, the second from 1962 too 1969.

Ammons and Von Freeman[?] were the founders of the Chicago School[?] of tenor saxophone.

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