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Pete Johnson

American musician
Also known as: Boss of the Blues
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  • boogie-woogie

    …the term itself, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, and Meade “Lux” Lewis.

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    …the term itself, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, and Meade “Lux” Lewis.

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  • Meade Lewis
    Meade Lewis

    …late 1930s, Lewis appeared with Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons as part of a famous six-handed boogie-woogie piano team. Lewis resisted being identified with one style of playing, and he spent the last 20 years of his career playing piano in nightclubs. His hypnotically insistent right-hand figures and the powerful…

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    …late 1930s, Lewis appeared with Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons as part of a famous six-handed boogie-woogie piano team. Lewis resisted being identified with one style of playing, and he spent the last 20 years of his career playing piano in nightclubs. His hypnotically insistent right-hand figures and the powerful…

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