The Chase! documents the momentous meeting of boss tenors Dexter Gordon (1923-1990) and Gene Ammons (1925-1974) before an enthusiastic club crowd in Ammons's hometown of Chicago. Both men had much experience in the dueling tenors format. Gordon, paired with Wardell Gray in 1947, recorded the original version of "The Chase," which provided a blueprint for virtually all tenor battles to follow. Three years later Ammons and Sonny Stitt began a successful partnership both live … MORE