Jazz Articles about Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt

Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt: God Bless Jug and Sonny

by Derek Taylor
September 1, 2001

Jug and Sonny share a place near the top in the pantheon of tandem tenor teams. Their spirited, hard-charging contests, which always seem to end in amicable draws are the stuff of canonical jazz legend so the news of an previously unreleased recording of the pair is undoubtedly enough to set the countenances of their loyal fans to suffusing with expectant grins. Taped live at the Left Bank Jazz Society during Ammons’ twilight time (he would die a little over ...