Albert Ammons Musical artist

Albert Ammons (September 23, 1907 – December 2, 1949) was an American pianist and player of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style popular from the late 1930s into the mid-1940s.

Personal facts

Birth dateSeptember 23, 1907
Birth place
Chicago , Illinois , United States
Date of deathDecember 02, 1949
Place of death
Chicago , Illinois , United States

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Musical artist

Career started1920
Career ended1949
BackgroundNon vocal instrumentalist
genre
Blues
Jazz
Boogie-woogie
record label
Mercury Records
Delmark Records
Blue Note Records
Vocalion Records

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Albert Ammons on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.angelfire.com/ks/landzastanza/index.html#ammons
  2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/profiles/albert_ammons.shtml
  3. http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/ammons-albert-biography
  4. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6720705
  5. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025095
  6. http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/7273/116
  7. http://www.nfb.ca/film/boogie-doodle