Albert Ammons - Boogie Woogie Stomp

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:53
Size: 107.3 MB
Styles: Piano blues
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[2:06] 1. Saturday Night
[2:23] 2. Monday Struggle
[1:46] 3. Try Again
[1:46] 4. Jesse James
[2:27] 5. Mama's Blues
[2:22] 6. Sweet Patootie
[2:46] 7. Chapel Blues
[2:19] 8. Has Anyone Seen Corrine
[2:21] 9. Bear Cat Crawl
[2:43] 10. Hersal Blues
[3:24] 11. Dupree Blues
[2:48] 12. St. Louis Blues
[2:50] 13. Four O'clock Blues
[1:33] 14. Shout For Joy
[3:53] 15. Yancey Special
[3:11] 16. Three Little Words
[2:34] 17. Bear Cat Shuffle
[3:33] 18. Boogie Woogie Stomp

Bass – Herbert Marshall; Piano – Albert Ammons, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Pete Johnson. Tracks 01-14: The Hotel Sherman Recordings, 1939. Tracks 15-18: The Frank Lyons Studio Recordings, 1938.

Previously unreleased private recordings from Chicago, featuring ALBERT AMMONS, MEADE LUX LEWIS, PETE JOHNSON. With Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson. 14 of the 18 songs were recorded in September/October '39 at the Hotel Sherman, Chicago for radio broadcast. The remainder are from a late '38 recording at Frank Lyon's home studio. Highlights include Lewis' jive commentary on "Three Little Words" where he addresses fictitious dancers and the notorious landlady at a rent party and the duet on two pianos by Ammons and Lewis on "Saturday Night". Boogie Woogie Stomp is also the name of a book about Ammons by Christopher I. Page (pub. Northeast Ohio Jazz Society, 1997) who provided the source material for the Hotel Sherman material.

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Big Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - Atomic Boogie (2-Disc Set)

Although this two-disc set appears to be a collection of tracks by Big Joe Turner and his longtime piano player Pete Johnson, the two only appear together on a half-dozen cuts here, with most of the space given over to Turner, whose trademark mix of jump blues and jazz-inflected R&B, all guided by his powerful vocals, is vintage stuff. Johnson heads up things on 11 tracks, most of which appeared on his 1946 LP for National Records, and his style, while anchored in boogie woogie, is more straight jazz than anything else, even featuring tenor sax great Ben Webster on the delightful "Ben Rides Out." Although one can't help but wish that Turner and Johnson had more cuts together on this collection, it still makes for an exciting and pleasant set. [This set was reissued a year later, with the only change being an assignment to the Savoy Jazz imprint]

Album: Atomic Boogie (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:34
Size: 147.8 MB
Styles: R&B, Urban blues, Jazz-blues
Year: 2001/2009

[2:59] 1. S.K. Blues, Pt. 1
[2:57] 2. S.K. Blues, Pt. 2
[3:01] 3. Johnson & Turner Blues
[2:57] 4. Watch That Jive
[2:48] 5. Howlin' Winds
[3:01] 6. Low Down Dog
[3:01] 7. Miss Brown Blues
[2:38] 8. I Got My Discharge Papers
[3:12] 9. My Gal's A Jockey
[3:22] 10. I'm Still In The Dark
[2:34] 11. I Got Love For Sale
[2:52] 12. Sunday Morning Blues
[2:25] 13. Mad Blues
[2:37] 14. Playboy Blues
[3:05] 15. I'm Still In The Dark
[2:52] 16. Miss Brown Blues
[2:53] 17. Sally Zu-Zazz
[3:06] 18. Rock Of Gibraltar Blues
[3:08] 19. Milk And Butter Blues
[2:49] 20. That's When It Really Hurts
[3:01] 21. I'm In Sharp When I Hit The Coast
[3:04] 22. New Oo-Wee Baby Blues (Wee Baby Blues)

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Album: Atomic Boogie (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:05
Size: 144.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Urban blues, Jazz-blues
Year: 2001/2009
Art: Front

[2:24] 1. Nobody In Mind
[3:14] 2. Lucille, Lucille (Take 1)
[2:57] 3. Lucille, Lucille (Take 2)
[2:38] 4. Rocks In My Bed
[2:51] 5. Careless Love
[2:59] 6. Last Goodbye Blues
[2:50] 7. Whistle Stop Blues
[2:44] 8. Hollywood Red (Cherry Red Blues)
[2:29] 9. Howlin' Winds
[2:42] 10. Atomic Boogie
[2:49] 11. 1280 Stomp
[2:46] 12. Back Room Blues
[2:51] 13. Pete's Lonesome Blues
[2:56] 14. Mr. Drum Meets Mr. Piano
[2:44] 15. Mutiny In The Doghouse
[2:53] 16. Mr. Clarinet Knocks Twice
[2:55] 17. Ben Rides Out
[3:03] 18. Page Mr. Trumpet
[3:01] 19. J.C. From K.C
[3:03] 20. Pete's Housewarming Blues
[3:12] 21. How Long, How Long Blues
[2:54] 22. Shake It And Break It

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Various - Picking The Blues: Boogie Woogie Pioneers Compiled By John Mayall

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:29
Size: 161.4 MB
Styles: Boogie Woogie Piano blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[3:09] 1. Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues
[3:18] 2. Pinetop Smith - Jump Steady Blues
[3:16] 3. Charlie Spand - Moanin' The Blues
[3:01] 4. Romeo Nelson - Head Rag Hop
[3:10] 5. Wesley Wallace - Fanny Lee Blues
[2:53] 6. Little Brother Montgomery - No Special Rider Blues
[3:15] 7. Jabo Williams - Pratt City Blues
[3:18] 8. Turner Parrish - Fives
[2:58] 9. Walter Roland - Jookit Jookit
[2:26] 10. Cleo Brown - Boogie Woogie
[3:06] 11. Jesse James - Lonesome Day Blues
[3:39] 12. Albert Ammons - Bass Goin' Crazy
[4:02] 13. Pete Johnson - Holler Stomp
[2:41] 14. Jimmy Yancey - 35th And Dearborn
[3:51] 15. Meade Lux Lewis - Six Wheel Chaser
[2:36] 16. Jay Mcshann - Vine Street Boogie
[2:43] 17. Cripple Clarence Lofton - In The Mornin'
[2:56] 18. Big Maceo Merriweather - Chicago Breakdown
[2:46] 19. Montana Taylor - Indiana Avenue Stomp
[2:42] 20. Memphis Slim - Slim's Boogie
[3:56] 21. Speckled Red - Early In The Morning
[4:35] 22. Otis Spann - Otis In The Dark

British musician, bandleader, and blues historian John Mayall was tapped by the excellent jazz and blues archival label Document to dig through his record collection and present the best of the boogie-woogie pioneers. Not only did Mayall select the 22 songs for the disc, but he also wrote the liner notes in which he recalls his life-altering discovery of this music by hunting down used 78s back in the early '50s. The lineup Mayall chose speaks for itself. Not only does he pay tribute to the professors of boogie-woogie, but also a cross reference of blues pianists recorded between 1928 and 1960, none of which are represented by more than one track, serving the listener with a full scope of variations in style. ~Al Campbell

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Various - Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 49:12
Size: 112.6 MB
Styles: Blues-jazz, Jump blues, Big Band, Boogie woogie
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[3:55] 1. Memphis Slim - Panic Street
[3:05] 2. Freddie Slack With The Will Bradley Trio - Down The Road A Piece
[3:05] 3. Curley Weaver And Clarence Moore - Baby Boogie Woogie
[2:44] 4. Charlie Spand - Soon This Morning No. 2
[2:19] 5. Pete Johnson - Boogie Woogie Prayer-Part 1
[2:33] 6. Pete Johnson - Boogie Woogie Prayer-Part 2
[2:16] 7. Sir Charles Thompson - Mister Boogie
[3:08] 8. Red Saunders & His Orchestra - Honky Tonk Train Blues
[2:47] 9. Pete Johnson With Big Joe Turner - Roll 'em Pete
[2:40] 10. Champion Jack Dupree - Dupree Shake Dance
[2:54] 11. Harry James & The Boogie Woogie Trio - Boo Woo
[2:23] 12. Albert Ammons - Shout For Joy
[2:15] 13. Calvin Frazier - Boogie Woogie
[2:18] 14. Adrian Rollini Trio - Honky Tonk Train Blues
[2:35] 15. Jimmy Yancey - Old Quaker Blues
[2:48] 16. Willie The Lion Smith - I Love You Baby Boogie
[2:42] 17. Pete Johnson - Boogie Woogie
[2:37] 18. Art Tatum - Tatum Pole Boogie

While some purists would like to compartmentalize boogie woogie into a nice, neat box as strictly a form of piano blues, this 18 track collection clearly demonstrates that the form lends itself to a wide variety of treatments. Tracks like "Baby Boogie Woogie" by country picker Curley Weaver, "Boogie Woogie" by Delta Cum. Detroit bluesman Calvin Frazier and jazz visionary Art Tatum's "Tatum Pole Boogie" do much to support that claim, as does the inclusion of tracks from Red Saunders, Adrian Rollini and Harry James. Much of the material reprised here comes from one of the very first Columbia 78 RPM 'albums, ' a collection of boogie woogie classics produced by John Hammond, the man who brought the music into national vogue in the late 30s by simply letting giants like Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson and Big Joe Turner do their thing. As a musical flavor of the month, boogie woogie lasted long enough into the 40s to have its rhythms incorporated into Tin Pan Alley fodder, but its influence lasted much longer than that. And here's 18 perfect examples of its timeless appeal, minus the commercial affectations. ~Cub Koda

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