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About Meade "Lux" Lewis
Hometown
Chicago, IL, United States
Born
September 4, 1905
Genre
Jazz
Meade "Lux" Lewis was one of the three great boogie-woogie pianists (along with Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson), and the man whose appearance at John Hammond's 1938 Spirituals to Swing concert helped start the boogie-woogie craze. He played regularly in Chicago in the late '20s and his one solo record of the time, "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (1927), is a classic. However, other than a few sides backing blues singers, Lewis gained little extra work and slipped into obscurity until John Hammond heard Lewis' record in 1935. Soon, he was back on records and after the 1938 concert he was able to work steadily, sometimes with Ammons and Johnson. He became the first jazz pianist to double on celeste, and he also played harpsichord on a few records in 1941. After the boogie-woogie craze ended, Lewis continued working in Chicago and California, recording as late as 1962.
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