Booklet (12 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.) with discography, and biographical and program notes by Max Harrison and Dan Morgenstern, laid in container. Edition limited to 5000 albums. Jazz; primarily piano; 4 selections for harpsichord. Manual sequence. Albert Ammons, piano ; Meade Lux Lewis, piano and harpsichord. Originally recorded Nov. 21, 1935, in Chicago, and Jan. 6, 1939-Aug. 22, 1944, in New York; previously issued on EMI's Blue Note and Parlophone labels.
Contents:
Albert Ammons: Boogie woogie stomp (3:35) -- Chicago in mind (4:00) -- Suitcase blues (3:51) -- Boogie woogie blues (3:42) -- Untitled Ammons original (4:04) -- Bass goin' crazy (3:36) -- Backwater blues (4:38) --Changes in boogie woogie (4:03) -- Easy rider blues (4:07). Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis: Twos and fews (4:33) -- Sheik of Araby (5:45). Meade Lux Lewis: Honky tonk train blues (2:51) -- Blues: part 1 (4:12) ; part 2 (3:55) ; part 3 (4:00) ; part 4 (3:51) ; part 5 (4:10) -- Untitled Lewis original (3:43) -- Melancholy (4:05) -- Solitude (4:09) -- Honky tonk train blues (4:05) --Bass on top (4:02) -- Six wheel chaser (3:49) -- Tell your story (4:00) -- Tell your story no. 2 (4:12) -- 19 ways of playing a chorus (4:04) -- School of rhythm (4:17) -- Self portrait (4:04) -- Feeling tomorrow like I feel today (3:55) -- Rising tide blues (3:40) -- Yancey special (4:10) -- Chicago flyer (3:58) -- Blues whistle (4:18) -- Meade's blues (4:21)
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