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Albert Ammons

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Albert Clifton Ammons (March 1, 1907 – December 3, 1949) was an American pianist and player of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style popular from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. [1]

79 relations: Alfred Lion, Ammons, Axel Zwingenberger, Backwater Blues, Berle Adams, Big Joe Duskin, Big Joe Turner, Big Maceo Merriweather, Blue Note Records, Blue Note Records discography, Blues, Blues for Myself, Boo-Woo, Boogie Woogie (album), Boogie-Doodle, Boogie-woogie, Boogie-Woogie Dream, Café Society, Chronological Classics complete discography, Club DeLisa, Curley Bridges, Cutting contest, Document Records, Edsel Albert Ammons, Freddie Kohlman, From Spirituals to Swing, Gene Ammons, George H. Buck Jr. Jazz Foundation, George Washington Thomas, Guy Kelly, Hadda Brooks, Harry James discography, Hersal Thomas, Huey "Piano" Smith, Israel Crosby, Jazz royalty, Jimmy Blythe, Jimmy Yancey, John Hammond (producer), John Mayall, Johnny Parker (jazz pianist), Jona Lewie, Lena Horne, Lila Ammons, Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County), List of blues musicians, List of boogie woogie musicians, List of cemeteries in the United States, List of Decca albums, List of jazz pianists, ..., List of Mercury Records artists, List of people from Illinois, List of songs about Chicago, List of songs about New York City, List of years in jazz, Little Willie Littlefield, Live at Montreux 2006, Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Piano Blues, Meade Lux Lewis, Michael Kaeshammer, Mildred Anderson, Origins of rock and roll, Pete Johnson, Piano blues, Pinetop Smith, Red Sails in the Sunset (song), Red Saunders (musician), Rob Agerbeek, Roll 'Em Pete, Roots 'n Blues: The Retrospective 1925–1950, Sam Theard, Solo Art Records, That's Black Entertainment, Woo-Woo (song), 1907 in jazz, 1936 in music, 1940s in jazz, 1949 in jazz, 8 to the Bar. Expand index (29 more) »

Alfred Lion

Alfred Lion (born Alfred Loew, April 21, 1908 – February 2, 1987), was a Jewish German-born American record executive who co-founded Blue Note Records in 1939.

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Ammons

Ammons is a surname.

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Axel Zwingenberger

Axel Zwingenberger (born May 7, 1955) is a blues and boogie-woogie pianist, and songwriter.

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Backwater Blues

The song "Backwater Blues" is a blues and jazz standard.

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Berle Adams

Berle Adams (born Beryl Adasky, June 11, 1917 – August 25, 2009) was a music industry executive and talent booking agent best known for co-founding Mercury Records in the 1940s and later becoming a senior executive at MCA.

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Big Joe Duskin

Big Joe Duskin (February 10, 1921 – May 6, 2007) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist.

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Big Joe Turner

Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri.

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Big Maceo Merriweather

Major Merriweather (March 31, 1905 – February 23, 1953), better known as Big Maceo Merriweather, was an American pianist and singer.

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Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records.

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Blue Note Records discography

This is the discography of Blue Note Records, the American jazz record label.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Blues for Myself

Blues for Myself is an album by pianist Cedar Walton which was recorded in 1985 and released on the Italian Red label.

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Boo-Woo

"Boo-Woo" is the A-side of the 78-rpm jazz instrumental single recorded on February 1, 1939 by Harry James and The Boogie Woogie Trio.

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Boogie Woogie (album)

Boogie Woogie is a compilation album containing four 10-inch, 78 rpm records of Boogie-woogie music.

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Boogie-Doodle

Boogie-Doodle is a 1940 drawn-on-film visual music short by Norman McLaren, set to the boogie-woogie music of African-American jazz pianist Albert Ammons.

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Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie is a musical genre that became popular during the late 1920s, but developed in African-American communities in the 1870s.

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Boogie-Woogie Dream

Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944) is an independently made short film musical, directed by Hanus Burger, starring Lena Horne, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Teddy Wilson and his orchestra.

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Café Society

Café Society was a New York City nightclub open from 1938 to 1948 at Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village, and managed by Barney Josephson.

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Chronological Classics complete discography

Chronological Classics was a French compact disc reissue label.

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Club DeLisa

The Club DeLisa, also written Delisa or De Lisa, at State Street and Garfield Avenue, on the South Side, was an important nightclub and music venue in Chicago.

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Curley Bridges

Curley Wilson Bridges (February 7, 1934 – November 27, 2014) was an American electric blues, rock-and-roll, and rhythm-and-blues singer, pianist and songwriter.

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Cutting contest

A cutting contest was a musical battle between various stride piano players from the 1920s to the 1940s, and to a lesser extent in improvisation contests on other jazz instruments during the swing era.

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Document Records

Document Records is an independent record label in Scotland that specializes in reissuing vintage blues and jazz.

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Edsel Albert Ammons

Edsel Albert Ammons (February 17, 1924 – December 24, 2010) was an American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1976.

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Freddie Kohlman

Louis Freddie Kohlman (August 25, 1918 – September 29, 1990) was an American jazz drummer, vocalist, and bandleader who was a native of New Orleans.

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From Spirituals to Swing

From Spirituals to Swing was the title of two concerts presented by John Hammond in Carnegie Hall on 23 December 1938 and 24 December 1939.

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Gene Ammons

Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – August 6, 1974), also known as "The Boss", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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George H. Buck Jr. Jazz Foundation

The George H. Buck Jr.

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George Washington Thomas

George Washington Thomas Jr. (March 9, 1883 – March 6, 1937).

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Guy Kelly

Guy Kelly (22 November 1906 - 24 February 1940) was an American jazz trumpeter born in Louisiana, perhaps best known for his work in Chicago the 1920s and 1930s with jazz musicians such as Albert Ammons and Jimmie Noone.

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Hadda Brooks

Hadda Brooks (October 29, 1916 – November 21, 2002) was an American pianist, vocalist and composer.

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Harry James discography

The discography of American trumpeter and band leader Harry James includes 30 studio albums, 47 EPs, three soundtrack/stage and screen albums, and numerous live albums and compilation albums, along with contributions as sideman and appearances with other musicians.

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Hersal Thomas

Hersal Thomas (September 9, 1906 – June 2, 1926) was an American blues pianist and composer.

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Huey "Piano" Smith

Huey Pierce Smith, known as Huey "Piano" Smith (born January 26, 1934, New Orleans, Louisiana), is an American rhythm-and-blues pianist whose sound was influential in the development of rock and roll.

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Israel Crosby

Israel Crosby (January 19, 1919 – August 11, 1962) was a jazz double-bassist born in Chicago, Illinois.

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Jazz royalty

Jazz royalty is a term encompassing the many jazz musicians who have been termed as exceptionally musically gifted and informally granted honorific, "aristocratic" or "royal" titles as nicknames.

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Jimmy Blythe

James Louis Blythe (May 20, 1901 – June 14, 1931) was an American jazz and boogie-woogie pianist and composer.

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Jimmy Yancey

James Edwards Yancey (February 20, 1894 or 1895 or 1901 – September 17, 1951) was an American boogie-woogie pianist, composer, and lyricist.

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John Hammond (producer)

John Henry Hammond II (December 15, 1910 – July 10, 1987) was an American record producer, civil rights activist, and music critic from the 1930s to the early 1980s.

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John Mayall

John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, guitarist, organist and songwriter, whose musical career spans over fifty years.

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Johnny Parker (jazz pianist)

Johnny Parker (6 November 1929 – 11 June 2010) was a British jazz pianist.

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Jona Lewie

Jona Lewie (born John Lewis, 14 March 1947 in Southampton, England) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his 1980 UK hits "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" and "Stop the Cavalry".

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Lila Ammons

Lila Ammons is a blues and jazz vocalist.

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Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)

Lincoln Cemetery is a cemetery in Worth Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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List of blues musicians

Performers in the blues style range from primitive, one-chord Delta players to big bands to country music to rock and roll to classical music.

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List of boogie woogie musicians

Among the many boogie-woogie musicians are not only blues players, but rock and roll, and country musicians as well, and at least one classical musician.

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List of cemeteries in the United States

This is a list of cemeteries in the United States, with selected notable interments.

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List of Decca albums

The following is a list of albums Decca Records has produced.

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List of jazz pianists

This is an alphabetized list of notable musicians who play or played jazz piano.

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List of Mercury Records artists

This list comprises acts that record, or have recorded at some time, for Mercury Records.

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List of people from Illinois

Aa–Ag.

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List of songs about Chicago

This is a list of songs about Chicago.

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List of songs about New York City

This article lists songs about New York City, set there, or named after a location or feature of the city.

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List of years in jazz

This page indexes the individual year in jazz pages.

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Little Willie Littlefield

Willie Littlefield, Jr., billed as Little Willie Littlefield (September 16, 1931 – June 23, 2013), was an American R&B and boogie-woogie pianist and singer whose early recordings "formed a vital link between boogie-woogie and rock and roll".

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Live at Montreux 2006

Live at Montreux 2006: They All Came Down to Montreux is the first live release by English hard rock band Deep Purple's mk VIII lineup.

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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Piano Blues

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Piano Blues is the soundtrack to the documentary film directed by Clint Eastwood.

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Meade Lux Lewis

Anderson Meade Lewis (September 4, 1905 – June 7, 1964), known as Meade Lux Lewis, was an American pianist and composer, noted for his playing in the boogie-woogie style.

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Michael Kaeshammer

Michael Kaeshammer (born 7 January 1977) is a Canadian jazz and boogie-woogie pianist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, and record producer.

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Mildred Anderson

Mildred Anderson was an American jazz, blues and R&B singer.

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Origins of rock and roll

Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s.

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Pete Johnson

Pete Johnson (born Kermit H. Johnson, March 25, 1904 – March 23, 1967) was an American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist.

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Piano blues

Piano blues is a catch-all term for blues genres that are structured around the piano as the primary musical instrument.

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Pinetop Smith

Clarence Smith (June 11, 1904 – March 15, 1929), better known as Pinetop Smith or Pine Top Smith, was an American boogie-woogie style blues pianist.

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Red Sails in the Sunset (song)

"Red Sails in the Sunset" is a popular song.

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Red Saunders (musician)

Theodore Dudley "Red" Saunders (March 2, 1912 – March 5, 1981) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Rob Agerbeek

Robbert Arris Jules "Rob" Agerbeek (born 28 September 1937 in Batavia (Jakarta)) is an Indo Dutch boogie-woogie and jazz pianist and winner of several jazz concourses in the Netherlands in the late 1950s.

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Roll 'Em Pete

"Roll 'Em Pete" is a rhythm and blues song, originally recorded in December 1938 by Big Joe Turner and pianist Pete Johnson.

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Roots 'n Blues: The Retrospective 1925–1950

Roots 'N Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950 is a four-CD box set released on Columbia Records in June 1992.

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Sam Theard

Samuel Allen Theard (October 10, 1904 – December 7, 1982) was an American singer, songwriter, actor, and comedian.

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Solo Art Records

Solo Art Records is a U.S. based record label and was purchased by Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis from the original owner in 1946 and run alongside their Circle label.

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That's Black Entertainment

That's Black Entertainment is a 1989 documentary film starring African-American performers and featuring clips from black films from 1929-1957.

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Woo-Woo (song)

"Woo-Woo" is the B-side of the 78-rpm jazz instrumental single recorded on February 1, 1939 by Harry James and The Boogie Woogie Trio.

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1907 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1907.

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1936 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1936.

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1940s in jazz

In the early 1940s in jazz, bebop emerged, led by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and others.

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1949 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1949.

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8 to the Bar

8 to the Bar is a studio album released by Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons in 1941 on Victor 78rpm set P-69, record numbers 27504 through 27507.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ammons

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