King Of Boogie Woogie [Import]

Albert Ammons | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 2011)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: ACROBAT
• ASIN: B0009VY6JQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,877 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #30 in Music > Jazz > Traditional Jazz & Ragtime > Boogie-Woogie
  • #30 in Music > Jazz > Jive Jazz

Track Listings

1. Monday Struggle

2. Boogie Woogie

3. Boogie Woogie Blues

4. Boogie Woogie Stomp

5. Chicago in Mind

6. Bass Goin' Crazy

7. Boogie Woogie at the Civic Opera

8. I Don't Want to See You

9. Swanee River Boogie

10. The Clipper

11. Ammons Stomp

12. Why I'm Leaving You

13. Tuxedo Boogie

14. Baltimore Breakdown

Editorial Reviews

Albert Ammons is rightly feted as the King of Boogie Woogie. America's Boogie Woogie craze of the late 30's and early 40's was originally in the hands of a few Black pianists before the big bands got a hold of the style and developed it into the biggest music craze the world had then seen. Here are 36 of Albert Ammons' greatest recordings on a fantastic double CD set, recorded between 1939 and 1949 mostly in Chicago. On many of these tracks Albert is accompanied by his son Gene Ammons generally acknowledged as one of the greatest tenor saxophonists in Jazz history.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Rockin Sides-, March 9, 2010

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crispycritter "crispycritter" (San Anselmo, Calif.) - See all my reviews

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Albert's Blue Note recordings start this out with 5 cuts from 1939, the 1st Blue Note recordings, one with Meade Lux Lewis, then it jumps forward to his Mercury issues from 1945-1949. The mercury stuff is flat out great, starting with 2 recordings with Sippie Wallace and Lonnie Johnson,then things start cooking with Ike Perkins on Guitar. The 1947 recordings feature Albert's son, Gene Adams, (22 years old) on some seriously swinging stuff. This issue is well paced on the 2 disks starting out with solo piano Boogie Woogie, (rather standard stuff) then jumping into the polished work of a very tight combo. The latter half of CD 1 and CD 2 will appeal to anyone who likes swinging R&B. This is not 2 CDs of repetitive boogie music but Ammons here is at the top of his game.King of the Boogie Woogie? Yea Baby! Note: Since the French Chronological Classics are ridiculously expensive now you can get those same recordings on this issue. (Chronological 1939-1946 most all is here, and 1946-1948, all here on this release) So get this one while you can as it is now deleted too. (Sad that 2 of the premier re-issue labels Classics and Acrobat are no more)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite A Collection, April 3, 2010

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Allan in Seattle (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

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I'm listening right now and C. Whitby has it right -- this is quite a collection. Don't let yourself be confused by Amazon's track listing. This is really a 2 CD collection with 19 and 18 tracks, respectively. Songs are pulled from a variety of Blue Note and Mercury issues.

I've also looked at the French issues (chronological classics) and also was struck by their super high prices. I'd start here instead to build an Ammons collection.

FYI: Windows Media Player will lookup a single CD version so you'll have to do a bit of typing of song titles.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Albert Ammons CDs Yet, October 23, 2009

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Kemesabe - See all my reviews

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These are the best Albert Ammons CD releases yet apart from "The Boogie Woogie Boys" that featured his piano duals with Pete Johnson. What I liked best about the "King of Boogie Woogie" collection is that it concentrates on his recordings from the 1940s when his style had peaked and recording technology had much improved relative to the 1930s. Previous releases had wasted too much time on his 1930 recordings that, with a few exceptions, were not up to the quality of those from the 1940s.