Albert Ammons, piano solo: (AMMONS) "Bass Goin' Crazy" (1939)

Описание: Every record company has a starting point. For legendary jazz label BLUE NOTE, that day came in early 1939, when a studio was rented and for a single day two master boogie pianists played their hearts out. The result: 18 completed sides.

Blue Note was founded by German-Jewish immigrants, Alfred Lion (b. Alfred Löw), and his money guy, Max Margulis, a man of many talents. At one time or another the openly Communist Margulis was a musician, writer, music teacher, voice coach, record producer, copywriter, photographer and left-wing activist. A Renaissance Red, perhaps?

Alfred Lion was 18 when he left Berlin for America in 1926. While working the NY docks, he was attacked and badly injured by an immigrant-hater. Lion returned to Germany while recuperating, but left when you-know-who came to power, eventually reaching NYC a year before he organized the label that, by 1947, was synonymous with bop, hard bop and avant-garde jazz.

The first day sessions include 16 solos and two duets. This sounds like more than one player, yet is credited solely to Albert Ammons.


Recorded Jan. 6, 1939 and released 1941
on shellac 12" BLUE NOTE 78 #21-A (1014)

Reissued 2005 on 10-disc MEMBRAN CD box set #223006
"BOOGIE WOOGIE Original Masters"