Albert Ammons grew up around Chicago's rent-party piano scene and, alongside lifelong friends Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson, helped carry boogie-woogie out of after-hours clubs and into the mainstream. His 1936 "Boogie Woogie Stomp," recorded with his own Rhythm Kings, translated the solo barrelhouse style into a full-band arrangement, and his high-profile pairings with Lewis and Johnson through the '30s and '40s — on record and at John Hammond's Carnegie Hall concerts — made the three of them the public face of the style.

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