Albert Ammons - Shout For Joy (1938)

[stevepipkin]

Fats Domino said one morning he woke up and he was a Rock and Roll celebrity, but still playing the same music as the night before.

[DaviTrombela84]

I still don't get the significant difference betwen boogie woogie and the 50's rock'n roll. I am sorry if I am just being ignorant, but to me, Little Richard is pretty much doing this same style, with vocals, and Chuck Berry is basically doing a guitar version of the same thing.

[hyzercreek]

@DaviTrombela84 You are correct. There is no difference.

[freakyhead20]

@hyzercreek I see a difference in rock n roll and boogie woogie...sorry I disagree its not the same

[hyzercreek]

@freakyhead20 Chuck Berry didn't. He said "You can call it rock or rhythm or even puck, it's all just boogie woogie as far as I'm connected to it." That's not an exact quote it's only from memory. He said it in his autobiography. But Chuck Berry said he played boogie woogie, that's good enough for me.

[John55son]

Just spent 45 minutes tooling through A. Ammons, Meade, Pine Top Smith, Pete Johnson, Doctor John. In my next life, I want to come back as a boogie woogie piano player of the first water. Outrageous!

[taza55]

marvelous, many thanks

[05Toamasina1938]

Albert CLARENCE AMMONS

read the book by Christopher I. Page

[allabouteatvideo]

I'm trying to figure out how to get those opening notes as a ringtone. This was my lullaby when I was growing up; my dad loved playing boogie-woogie and this was his favorite song to play. RIP, Tom Harris.

[Algonas1]

BOOGIE WOOGIE

[jgrodnik]

He's the father of tenor man Gene Ammons.

[RockabillyWilly1]

So he died at 42 - just like Elvis - too early!!

[Bumblebee38]

One of his BEST indeed !!!!!!

on Vocalion 4608 from january 1939..more than 70 years ago ?????

[TheFabStringbean]

FANTASTIC!

[irvinemuscles]

He's in Heaven playing this music to the Allmighty. Beautiful man.

[pugmire1]

Thanks for posting this. The great Albert Ammons in all his majestic glory. That driving left hand is the best there ever was. The guy could have lifted a piano with one hand.

Now can someone post the greatest piano blues number ever recorded: Albert's 'Chicago On My Mind'?

[rdr555]

It's been posted. See "Chicago in Mind"

[pugmire1]

Thanks! I found it. The greatest piano blues solo ever recorded.

[TheFabStringbean]

Albert Ammons: King of the Boogie Woogie!!!

[marctrainor]

It just doesn't get any better than this!!! Marc Trainor. These guys were "the guys" in boogie piano, in my book, and certainly set the stage for all the later boogie men and women to come. Marc.

[jphar]

check out Jimmy Yancey, he pre dated all these greats. He was the boogie daddy.

[Zagathon7]

Play me that devil music, son...!

[cushtichavi]

why did he die so young?

[widdyhabb]

Boogie-Woogie forever!

[svnnhshirl]

Nice to hear the originals, of what was popular, when I was three years old! Between that, and the fact that my Mama played the piano, no wonder I grew up and played the piano, too!

[zorbazig]

Everlasting ! Thanx for adding it ! Had it on an old vynil I can't play any more...

[Historystartsnow]

i strongly urge everyone to check out "Chicago Legends 1926/1950" It's a CD that features Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Marton, Johnny Odds, Jimmie Noone, Mezz Mezzrow, Earl Hines, Horace Henderson, Sonny Thompson, Eddie Chamblee, Pinetop Smith, Jimmy Yancey, Albert Ammons, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Maceo, and Muddy Waters. Alltogether there are 22 tracks with superb quality. You can even find it in your local library like I did :)

[arriva416]

you might also try the cd Barrelhouse Boogie( CD ND8834) from BMG music it features music by Meade Lux Lewis,Jimmy Yancey and of course

Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons, the CD was first released in 1989 so it be a bit hard to find.