Amoeba Music

By Stuart Kremsky

            Meade Lux Lewis, along with Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson, was one of the most influential and successful boogie-woogie piano players. Primarily a fast, piano-based music made for dancing; boogie woogie is described by Smithsonian music historian Martin Williams as “…a percussive blues piano style—no one knows how old—in which an ostinato bass figure, usually (but not always) played eight beats to the bar, is juxtaposed with a succession of right hand figures.” When Lewis appeared with Ammons and Johnson at the first Spirituals to Swing show at Carnegie Hall, it sparked a boogie-woogie craze that would sweep... Read More

City Of Origin:

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Genre:

Jazz, Classic Jazz, Boogie Woogie

Birthdate:

09/04/1905

Death date:

06/07/1964