Gene Ammons

Following Fearless Leader and Interplay, Side Steps completes Prestige Records planned three boxed-set series focusing on tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. Read More

Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. Read More

The jazz myth of Chicago is powerful, dating back to 1922, when King Oliver summoned Louis Armstrong from New Orleans to change the world. Read More

Two major distinguishing factors that make Eddie Harris an innovator had to do with his teacher at DuSable High School in Chicago, and his use of the Varitone Saxophone. Read More

Side Steps is Prestige Records' final installment in a project that has seen all of John Coltrane's recordings for the label anthologized. Read More

There was a time, perhaps, when playing jazz was much more a matter of soul than technique. Read More

The artistic prowess of saxophonist John Coltrane was so expansive and influential - even in his own short lifetime, let alone in the decades since his death - that it's difficult to quantify or differentiate his significance as a leader, a collaborator, a sideman or any other role in the jazz idiom. Read More