Artist: Pete Johnson
Album: 1947-1949
Genre: Boogie-Woogie
Label: Classics
Released: 2000
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Margie (3:04)
- Minuet Boogie (2:38)
- 66 Stomp (2:46)
- Pete Kay Boogie (3:01)
- Hollywood Boogie (2:48)
- Yancey Street Boogie (2:42)
- Swanee River (2:48)
- Central Avenue Drag (2:47)
- Sunset Romp (Swingin' the Boogie) (2:55)
- High Tower Drive (Sunset Romp) (2:54)
- Johnson's Boogie (Rock and Roll Boogie) (2:38)
- Yancey Special (2:52)
- J.J. Boogie (2:30)
- Swanee River Boogie (3:16)
- St. Louis Boogie (2:40)
- Skid Row Boogie (2:47)
- Half Tight Boogie (3:04)
- Rocket 88 Boogie - Part 1 (2:50)
- Rocket 88 Boogie - Part 2 (2:43)
- Wrinkle Head Boogie (2:50)
- Road House Boogie (2:58)
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Classics #1110 is the fourth installment chronicling 21 final key recordings of boogie woogie pianist Pete Johnson. 1947-1949 found Johnson leading three different quartets (the second with Al Mckibbon on bass and J.C. Heard on drums) for the Apollo, Modern, and French Jazz Selection labels, while the final session features a sextet on six tracks, blistering through the excellent "Rocket 88 Boogie, Parts 1 and 2" for the Down Beat/Swingtime label. These sessions have a common thread in the predominate use of guitar from Charles Norris, Carl Lynch, Johnny Rogers, and Herman Mitchell thoroughly featured alongside Johnson's piano throughout. Soon after these sessions Johnson left his West Coast home for Buffalo where he essentially retired, showing up occasionally at the odd live appearance or on other musicians' sessions.
Review by Al Campbell