Artist: Albert Ammons
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Collection (Boogie Woogie)
Year:
Tracks: 21
Albert Ammons was one of the braggy trey of late-'30s boogie-woogie along with Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis. Arguably the most potent of the trey, Ammons was likewise elastic enough to play swing music. Ammons played in Chicago clubs from the twenties on, although he likewise worked as a taxi number one wood for a time. Starting in 1934, he light-emitting diode his own dance band in Chicago, and he made his first records in 1936. In 1938, Ammons appeared at Carnegie Hall with Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis, an event that in truth helped launch the boogie-woogie craze. Ammons recorded with the early pianists in duets and trios, match right in with the Port of Harlem Jazzmen on their Blue Note session, appeared regularly at Cafe Society, recorded as a sideman with Sippie Wallace in the forties, and he even cut a session with his son, the great tenorman Gene Ammons. Albert Ammons worked steadily throughout the forties, playing at President Harry Truman's inauguration in 1949; he died by and by that year. Many of his recordings are presently available on CD.
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