Although Jerry Lee Lewis devoured boogie woogie at the age of ten, he soon incorporated it with gospel and country to develop his own style of rockabilly. But he always admired the giants of boogie ...
Fresh Air's jazz critic reviews Boogie Woogie and Blues Piano, a new box set featuring remastered recordings from music greats such as Chicago's Jimmy Yancy, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson. It also ...
Some reviews write themselves and this is one of them. The good people at Delmark have recently acquired the master tapes to Paul Affeldt's Euphonic Sound label and any amount of work that might have ...
There are 23 performances by the boogie men on the first CD, all from broadcasts out of the Sherman Hotel, Chicago, during September-October, 1939. There are eight solos by Ammons, six each by Johnson ...
Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis helped kick off the boogie-woogie craze with his lifelong friend Albert Ammons
Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...
Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons. side 1: Boogie Woogie Prayer (part1); side 2: Boogie Woogie Prayer (part 2) (Columbia 35960), from the album, Boogie Woogie (Columbia C-44). 78 rpm.
The title reflects what has almost amounted to an obsession among producers of jazz albums that go all the way back to early New Orleans piano. One can only wonder whether the urgent boogie woogie ...
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