Pete Johnson - Roll ’Em Pete 1938 (Boogie Woogie Piano Synthesia) [Transcribed by: @blueblackjazz]
Roll ’Em Pete by Pete Johnson (Boogie Woogie)
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Pete Johnson (born Kermit H. Johnson, March 25, 1904 – March 23, 1967) was an American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist.
Tony Russell stated in his book The Blues – From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray that “Johnson shared with the other members of the ’Boogie Woogie Trio’ the technical virtuosity and melodic fertility that can make this the most exciting of all piano music styles, but he was more comfortable than Meade Lux Lewis in a band setting; and as an accompanist, unlike Lewis or Albert Ammons, he could sparkle but not outshine his singing partner“. Scott Yanow for AllMusic, wrote: “Johnson was one of the three great boogie-woogie pianists“, the others being Lewis and Ammons “whose sudden prominence in the late 1930s helped make the style very popular“.
Johnson was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He was raised by his mother after his father deserted the family. Things got so bad financially, Pete was placed in an orphanage when he was three. He became so homesick, however, that he ran away and returned living at home. By the age of 12, he sought out work to ease some of the financial burden at home. He worked various jobs; in a factory, a print shop, and as a shoe-shiner. He dropped out of school in the fifth grade as a result of his efforts.
Johnson began his musical career in 1922 as a drummer in Kansas City. He began piano about the same time he was learning the drums. His early piano practices took place in a church, where he was working as a water boy for a construction company.[5] From 1926 to 1938, he worked as a pianist, often working with Big Joe Turner. An encounter with record producer John Hammond in 1936 led to an engagement at the Famous Door in New York City. In 1938, Johnson and Turner appeared in the From Spirituals to Swing concert at Carnegie Hall. After this show the popularity of the boogie-woogie style was on the upswing. Johnson worked locally and toured and recorded with Turner, Meade Lux Lewis, and Albert Ammons during this period. Ammons and Johnson appeared in the film short Boogie-Woogie Dream in 1941.
The 1938 song “Roll ’Em Pete“ (composed by Johnson and Turner),[6] featuring Turner on vocals and Johnson on piano, was one of the first rock and roll records. Another self-referential title was their “Johnson and Turner Blues.“ In 1949, he also wrote and recorded “Rocket 88 Boogie,“ a two-sided instrumental, which influenced the 1951 Ike Turner hit, “Rocket 88“.
On three dates in January 1946, Johnson recorded an early concept album, Pete Johnson’s Housewarmin’, in which he starts out playing alone, supposedly in a new empty house, and is joined there by J. C. Higginbotham, J. C. Heard, and other Kansas City players. The recording also included parts played by Albert Nicholas, Hot Lips Page, Clyde Bernhardt. Budd Johnson, and a young singer, Etta Jones. Each has a solo cut backed by Johnson, and then the whole group plays a jam session together. On this album Johnson shows his considerable command of stride piano and his ability to work with a group. It was later re-released as Pete’s Blues.
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