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Pete Johnson-"Boogie Woogie Piano Solos"-1941-Leeds Music Corp-9" X 12"-24 pages-songbook. This vintage Jazz songbook features the music to these songs-Blues On The Downbeat,Cherry Red,Holler Stomp,Kaycee On My Mind,Roll Em Pete. The songbook also features an early photo and biography of Pete Johnson.Peter (Pete) Johnson (25 March 1904 - 23 March 1967) was an American jazz pianist, best known as a leading boogie-woogie pianist.Johnson was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He began his musical career in 1922 as a drummer in Kansas City. From 1926 to 1938 he worked as a pianist, often accompanying Big Joe Turner. In 1938 he and Turner appeared in the "From Spirituals to Swing" concert at Carnegie Hall. This concert started a boogie-woogie craze, and Turner and two other performers at the concert, Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons, worked together afterwards at Caf Society for a long time; they also toured and recorded together. The song, "Roll 'Em Pete", featuring Turner on vocals and Johnson on piano, was one of the first rock and roll records. Another self-referential title was their "Johnson and Turner Blues". In 1949, he also wrote and recorded "Rocket 88 Boogie", a two-sided instrumental not to be confused with the Ike Turner 1951 hit "Rocket 88". In the late 1940s, Johnson recorded an early concept album Pete's House Warmin' , in which he starts out playing alone, supposedly in new empty house, and is joined there by J. C. Higgenbotham, J.C. Heard, and other Kansas City players. Each has a solo single backed by Johnson, and then the whole group plays a jam session together. On this album Johnson shows his considerable command of stride piano and his ability to work with a group. In 1950 he moved to Buffalo but, despite problems with his health, he continued to tour and record, notably with Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner, and Jazz at the Philharmonic. A stroke in 1958 left him partly paralyzed. Johnson made one final appearance at John Hammond's January 1967 "Spirituals to Swing" concert, playing the right hand on a version of "Roll 'Em Pete" two months before his death. This songbook originally sold for fifty cents. The songbook has been autographed on the front by Pete Johnson with a fountain pen in blue.................BOTH SONGBOOK AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN USED CONDITION...................
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