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Boogie Woogie Piano - Chicago - New York 1924-1945 (1995)

Label: Fremeaux & Associes 

2CD | MP3 320 kbps 

256 MB

Genre: Piano Blues,Boogie Woogie

Boogie Woogie was created on the piano, the instrument that provided its character and its masterpieces. 

Here, in the first anthology of its kind, is the story of how it all happened.
Boogie Woogie, or "barrelhouse" is a blues-based piano style in which the right hand plays an accompaniment figure 
that resembles a strummed rhythm, such as is typically played on the guitar or banjo in rural blues dances. 

This could be expressed as a walking octave, an open-fifth pounded out with a blue third thrown in
or even a simple figure such as falling triad (as in the work of Jimmy Yancey); the approach varies to the pianist. 

The style probably evolved in the American Midwest alongside that of ragtime, to which it is closely related. 

The earliest description of the style occurs in print circa 1880. 

Elements of boogie-woogie can be found prior to 1910 in piano works by such disparate figures such as Blind Boone 
Luckey Roberts and the classical composer Charles Ives. 

The earliest recorded examples of boogie woogie are found on piano rolls made in 1922 by Cow Cow Davenport 
and by the end of the 1920s dozens of boogie woogie pianists had recorded ranging geographically from Texas to Chicago. 

Boogie-woogie practically disappeared from records during the depression. 

However, it returned with a vengeance in the late '30s, popularized by a smart Deane Kincaide arrangement 
for Tommy Dorsey-s band of the 1929 composition "Boogie Woogie" written by Clarence "Pine Top" Smith 
a Chicago pianist who is also credited with coining the term. 

Boogie-woogie enjoyed its heyday in the early '40s, and as a result, one-time Chicago barrelhouse pianists such 
as Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson found themselves feted as celebrities in New York-s 
exclusive cafe society circles. 

After the Second World War interest in the style subsided,but elements of the sound were absorbed into the playing 
of early rock & roll artists such as Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. 

It also remains an important component to New Orleans pop music, as in the work of Professor Longhair and Dr. John. 

Among living pianists working in nightclubs and cocktail bars, 
it can be said that boogie-woogie has never truly lost its popularity even today.

Tracks:

Disc One
01. Pinetop Smith - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
02. Jimmy Blythe - Chicago Stomps
03. Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues
04. Cow Cow Davenport - Chimes Blues
05. Jimmy Yancey - Five O'Clock Blues
06. Hersal Thomas - The Fives
07. Albert Ammons - Suitcase Blues
08. Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues
09. Charles Avery - Dearborn Street Breakdown
10. Cripple Clarence Lofton - I Don't Know
11. Montana Taylor - Detroit Rocks
12. Will Ezell - Heifer Dust
13. Blind Leroy Garnett - Chain 'Em Down
14. Speckled Red - St. Louis Stomp
15. Bob Call - Thirty-One Blues
16. Jabo Williams - Pratt City Blues
17. Dot Rice - Texas Stomp
18. Little Brother Montgomery - Farish Street Jive

Disc Two
01. Cleo Brown - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
02. Albert Ammons - Boogie Woogie Stomp
03. Albert Ammons - St. Louis Blues
04.Meade Lux Lewis - Mr. Freddie Blues
05. Meade Lux Lewis - Six Wheel Chaser
06. Pete Johnson - Basement Boogie
07. Pete Johnson - Death Ray Boogie
08. Boogie Woogie Trio - Boogie Woogie Prayer
09. Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Stomp
10. Jimmy Yancey - Slow And Easy Blues
11. Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson - Sixth Avenue Express
12. Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson - Barrelhouse Boogie
13. Albert Ammons - The Boogie Rocks
14. Pete Johnson - Dive Bomber
15. Jay McShann - Hold 'Em, Hootie
16. Lionel Hampton - Central Avenue Breakdown
17. Cecil Gant - Cecil Boogie
18. Sammy Price - Boogin' With Big Sid