Lonnie Johnson & Joshua Altheimer

Описание: Lonnie Johnson (gt/voc) & Joshua Altheimer (p)



Lonnie Johnson Can be considered the first true solo guitarist in the history of Negro American music, other instrumentalists, belonging both to the world of the Blues and to the Jazz, have also played a decisive role in the emancipation of the guitar, before the Second World War .Eddie Lang has established himself as an excellent guitarist, he has turned to posterity especially for his superb improvisations, In this Eddie Lang was, with Lonnie Johnson, the master of all the solo guitarists who will emerge from the thirties in then. Exerting a considerable influence on all guitar virtuosos. They belonged to the jazz world, like Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt, or to the Blues, like T. Bone Walker and B. B. King.

Alonzo Lonnie Johnson (Solo)-   • Lonnie Johnson  
B. February 8, 1899 -New Orleans, Louisiana
D. June 16, 1970 - Ontario, Canada


Joshua Altheimer was an American pianist who is remembered for accompanying Big Bill Broonzy, Lonnie Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson and others on influential blues recordings made in Chicago in the 1930s. He was described by Broonzy as "the best blues piano player I ever heard".

Joshua Altheimer
B. May 17, 1910, Arkansas
D. November 18, 1940, Chicago

1. Why Women Go Wrong
2. She's Only A Woman
Chicago, 1939