Ammons: A Sheaf of Words for Piano

by Kevin McNeilly

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Album purchase includes a downloadable electronic chapbook with the complete texts of the poems, as well as a bonus print-only track, "The Infamous Piet Mondrian Riffs on Albert Ammons Himself, New York, 1943"

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1.	[Prelude, First Things First] 02:01	buy track
2.	Two for One 03:09	buy track
3.	Pinetop Smith's Final Words 03:14	buy track
4.	Blue and Boogie 1: Blue 02:58	buy track
5.	The Boogie Woogie Dream Synopsis, Parts One and Two (The Whole Film Re-Told from Memory): First Part 03:28	buy track
6.	The Boogie Woogie Dream Synopsis, Parts One and Two, Continued: Second and Final Part 03:09	buy track
7.	Three for All, and Then Some: Riffs on Cafe Society Rag, January 30, 1939 00:46	buy track
8.	[Interlude, Play More] 02:05	buy track
9.	Blue and Boogie 2: Boogie 02:45	buy track
10.	The Carnegie Hall Stomp, Albert Ammons's Biggest Break Yet, Friday Evening, December 23, 1938 02:49	buy track
11.	Illinois Breakdown, December, 1944, as Reported in Down Beat, followed by Inaugural, January, 1949 04:11	buy track
12.	[Postlude, Wind It Down] 02:20	buy track
13.	Lena, Coda 04:07	buy track
14.	Bonus Track (print only): The Infamous Piet Mondrian Riffs on Albert Ammons Himself, New York 1943

about

This album pays tribute, in poetry and in piano improvisations, to the life and music of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons (and other musicians in his circle and his artistic lineage, including Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson, Lena Horne, Teddy Wilson, Israel Crosby, Pinetop Smith, and others). The texts are pre-composed, while the music is freely improvised.

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released June 19, 2015

Kevin McNeilly: Words, Speaking, Sound Editing
Geoff Mitchell: Piano, Sound Recording, Sound Editing

Recorded in February 2011 in Montreal, Canada

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about

Kevin McNeilly Vancouver, British Columbia

Kevin McNeilly writes and speaks, and he's also an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. He blogs at Frank Styles: frankstyles.blogspot .ca