Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Albert Ammons (1907-1949) was an American boogie-woogie pianist. Ammons formed his own band in 1934, and in 1938 performed in the Spirituals to Swing concert at Carnegie Hall, which among other achievements launched the boogie-woogie craze. He and two other performers at the concert, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson, became the leading boogie-woogie pianists of the day. The three worked together at Café Society and also toured and recorded as a trio. He worked steadily till his death in 1949; he played at Harry S. Truman's inauguration that year. He was the father of tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.