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Albert Ammons
American jazz pianist, recording artist (1907–1949)
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Albert Clifton Ammons (March 1, 1907 – December 2, 1949)[1] was an American pianist and player of boogie-woogie, a blues style popular from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s.[2]
Life and career
Ammons was born in Chicago, Illinois.
His parents were pianists, and he had learned to play by the age of ten. His interest in boogie-woogie is attributed to his close friendship with Meade Lux Lewis and also his father's interest in the style.
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Both Albert and Meade would practice together on the piano in the Ammons household. From the age of ten, Ammons learned about chords by marking the depressed keys on the family pianola (player piano) with a pencil and repeated the process until he had mastered it.[3] He also played percussion in a drum and bugle corps as a teenager and was soon performing with bands in clubs in Chicago.
After World War I he became interested in the bl