PETE JOHNSON CENTRAL AVENUE BOOGIE
Label: Delmark DD-656
Format:Flac
In the beginning there was three: Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis. These men, fine pianists all, created the great boogie woogie rage of the 30s and 40s. They stood at the peak of the boogie woogie pyramid. Everybody imitated them; all the big name bands had to have boogie woogie arrangements. But the real article was played on by a few pianists, of whom these three were the best. Pete Johnson is generally considered to have been the most brilliant of the three.
Personnel: Pete Johnson (piano); Arnold "Doc" Wiley (vocals, piano); Charles Norris, Carl Lynch (guitar); J.C. Heard, Jesse Price (drums).
1.Pete Kay Boogie
2.Central Avenue Drag
3.Margie - (previously unreleased)
4.66 Stomp
5.Minute Boogie
6.Yancey Street Boogie
7.Swanee River Boogie - (previously unreleased)
8.Hollywood Boogie - (previously unreleased, alternate take, alternate 1)
9.Hollywood Boogie - (previously unreleased, alternate take, alternate 2)
10.Hollywood Boogie - (previously unreleased, alternate take, alternate 3)
11.Hollywood Boogie - (master)
12.Plain Food Blues - (previously unreleased)
13.Plain Food Blues
14.Wiley's Boogie
