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Albert Clifton Ammons (March 1, 1907 – December 2, 1949) was an American pianist and player of boogie-woogie, a blues style popular from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s.
Albert Ammons fue un pianista y compositor nacido en Chicago (Illinois, Estados Unidos) el 23 de septiembre de 1907. Sus padres eran pianistas y a los diez años lo iniciaron en el instrumento.
A major inspiration to generations of improvising musicians, Albert Ammons is best remembered as an exciting pianist who inaugurated the Blue Note record label by hammering out blues and boogie duets with Meade “Lux” Lewis, and as the father of hard bop tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons.
He recorded for the Mercury label from September 1945 until January 1949, sometimes partnered with his son, the outstanding tenor sax player Gene Ammons (1925-1974). The Mercury recordings have sometimes been dismissed as being bland and commercial.
Pianist Albert Ammons was the king of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style that swept the United States —and then the world—from the late 1930s into the mid-1940s. Although his origins were modest, his powerful piano style would take him from Chicago barrooms to Carnegie Hall to the White House.
Pianist Albert Ammons was the king of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style that swept the United States---and then the world---from the late 1930s into the mid-1940s. Although his origins were modest, his powerful piano style would take him from Chicago barrooms to Carnegie Hall to the White House.
Albert Ammons fue un pianista y compositor nacido en Chicago el 23 de septiembre de 1907. Sus padres eran pianistas y a los diez años lo iniciaron en el instrumento. Poco después de la Primera Guerra Mundial comenzó a aprender a tocar blues, y llegó a escuchar a pianistas como Jimmy Yancey y Hersal Thomas, quienes resultaron para él una ...
