Conventional long name	Kingdom of Ammon
Common name	Ammon
Continent	Asia
Region	Middle East
Era	Iron Age
Status	Kingdom
Government type	Monarchy
Year start	c. 10th C.
Event start	Kingdom of Ammon flourishes
Year end	334 B.C.
Event end	Invasion by Alexander the Great
Event1	Battle of Qarqar against the Assyrians
Date event1	853 B.C.
Event post	Rabbath Ammon renamed to Philadelphia
Date post	248-282 B.C.
|image map	Kingdoms around Israel 830 map.svg
Image map caption	The region, around 830 B.C.
P1	Aramean Settlements
S1	Nabatean Kingdom
S2	Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
Capital	Rabbath Ammon (Amman)1
Common languages	Ammonite, Moabite
Religion	Milkomite
Leader1	Hanun
Leader2	Sanipu
Leader3	Amminadab I
Year leader1	Around 1000 B.C.
Year leader2	740-720 B.C
Year leader3	680–640 B.C

in Amman]] was built by the governor of Ammon in 200 B.C.]] Ammon (; ), also referred to as the Ammonites and children of Ammon, was an ancient nation located east of the Jordan River, Gilead, and the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan. The chief city of the country was Rabbah or Rabbath Ammon, site of the modern city of Amman, Jordan's capital. Milcom and Molech (who may be one and the same) are named in the Bible as the gods of Ammon.

In the Bible

According to the biblical account, , both Ammon and Moab were born of an incestuous relationship between Lot and his two daughters in the aftermath of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Bible refers to both the Ammonites and Moabites as the "children of Lot". Throughout the Bible, the Ammonites and Israelites are portrayed as mutual antagonists. During the Exodus, the Israelites were prohibited by the Ammonites from passing through their lands. In the Book of Judges, the Ammonites work with Eglon, king of the Moabites against Israel. Attacks by the Ammonites on Israelite communities east of the Jordan were the impetus behind the unification of the tribes under Saul.

According to both and , Naamah was an Ammonite. She was the only wife of King Solomon to be mentioned by name in the Tanakh as having borne a child. She was the mother of Solomon's successor, Rehoboam.

The Ammonites presented a serious problem to the Pharisees because many marriages with Ammonite (and Moabite) wives had taken place in the days of Nehemiah. The men had married women of the various nations without conversion, which made the children not Jewish. The legitimacy of David's claim to royalty was disputed on account of his descent from Ruth, the Moabite.

Relation to Assyria

Ammon maintained its independence from the Assyrian empire through tribute to the Assyrian king, at a time when nearby kingdoms were being raided or conquered.

Somewhat later, the Ammonite king Amminadab I was among the tributaries who suffered in the course of the great Arabian campaign of Assurbanipal. Other kings attested to in contemporary sources are Barakel (attested to in several contemporary seals) and Hissalel, the latter of whom reigned about 620 BCE. Hissalel is mentioned in an inscription on a bottle found at Tel Siran, Jordan along with his son, King Amminadab II, who reigned around 600 BCE.

In the Persian, Maccabbee, and Roman eras

Little mention is made of the Ammonites through the Persian and early Hellenistic periods. Their name appears, however, during the time of the Maccabees. The Ammonites, with some of the neighboring tribes, did their utmost to resist and check the revival of the Jewish power under Judas Maccabaeus.

The last notice of the Ammonites is in Justin Martyr (second century) Dialogue with Trypho (§ 119), where it is affirmed that they were still a numerous people, concentrated in the south of Palestine.

Language

The few Ammonite names that have been preserved also include Nahash and Hanun, both from the Bible. The Ammonites's language is believed to be Semitic, closely related to Hebrew and Moabite. Ammonite may have incorporated certain Aramaic influences, including the use of ‘bd, instead of commoner Biblical Hebrew ‘śh, for "work". The only other notable difference with Biblical Hebrew is the sporadic retention of feminine singular -t (e.g. ’šħt "cistern", but ‘lyh "high (fem.)".)

Economy

Like its sister-kingdom of Moab, Ammon was the source of numerous natural resources, including sandstone and limestone. It had a productive agricultural sector and occupied a vital place along the King's Highway, the ancient trade route connecting Egypt with Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia. As with the Edomites and Moabites, trade along this route gave them considerable revenue. Circa 950 BCE Ammon showed rising prosperity, due to agriculture and trade, and built a series of fortresses. Its capital was located in what is now the Citadel of Amman.

See also

Abel-cheramim

References

External links

Muller, Max and Kaufman Kohler. "Ammon, Ammonites." Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906.

Hertz J.H. (1936) The Pentateuch and Haftoras. Deuteronomy. Oxford University Press, London.

Ammon on Bruce Gordon's Regnal Chronologies (also at )

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Name	Sonny Stitt
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	Edward Stitt
Born	February 2, 1924
Died	July 22, 1982
Origin	Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Instrument	Tenor saxophone, Alto saxophone
Genre	Jazz, Bebop, hard bop
Occupation	Saxophonist
Associated acts	Billy Eckstine, Gene Ammons, Eddie Davis, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis

Edward "Sonny" Stitt (b. February 2, 1924, Boston, Massachusetts – d. July 22, 1982, Washington, D.C.) was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He was also one of the most well-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording over 100 albums in his lifetime. He was nicknamed the "Lone Wolf" by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern in tribute to his relentless touring and his devotion to jazz. He is considered the greatest disciple of Charlie Parker. Although his playing was at first heavily inspired by Charlie Parker and Lester Young, Stitt eventually developed his own style, one which influenced John Coltrane. Stitt was especially effective with blues and with ballad pieces such as "Skylark".

Biography

Early life

Stitt was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. Stitt had a musical background; his father was a college music professor, his brother was a classically trained pianist, and his mother was a piano teacher.

In 1943, Stitt first met Charlie Parker, and as he often later recalled, the two men found that their styles had an extraordinary similarity that was partly coincidental and not merely due to Stitt's emulation. Stitt's improvisations were more melodic/less dissonant than those of Parker. Stitt's earliest recordings were made in 1945 with Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie. He had also experienced playing in some swing bands, though he mainly played in bop bands. Stitt featured in Tiny Bradshaw's big band in the early forties. Stitt replaced Charlie Parker in Dizzy Gillespie's band in 1945.

Stitt played alto saxophone in Billy Eckstine's big band alongside future bop pioneers Dexter Gordon and Gene Ammons from 1945 until 1956, when he started to play tenor saxophone more frequently, in order to avoid being referred to as a Charlie Parker emulator. Later on, he notably played with Gene Ammons and Bud Powell. Stitt spent time in a Lexington prison between 1948–49 for selling narcotics.

Stitt, when playing tenor saxophone, seemed to break free from some of the criticism that he was imitating Charlie Parker's style, although it appears in the instance with Ammons above that the availability of the larger instrument was a factor. Indeed, Stitt began to develop a far more distinctive sound on tenor. He played with other bop musicians Bud Powell and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, a fellow tenor with a distinctly tough tone in comparison to Stitt, in the 1950s and recorded a number of sides for Prestige Records label as well as albums for Argo, Verve and Roost. Stitt experimented with Afro-Cuban jazz in the late 1950s, and the results can be heard on his recordings for Roost and Verve, on which he teamed up with Thad Jones and Chick Corea for Latin versions of such standards as "Autumn Leaves."

Stitt joined Miles Davis briefly in 1960, and recordings with Davis' quintet can be found only in live settings on the tour of 1960. Concerts in Manchester and Paris are available commercially and also a number of concerts (which include sets by the earlier quintet with John Coltrane) on the record Live at Stockholm (Dragon), all of which featured Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb and Paul Chambers. However, Miles fired Stitt due to the excessive drinking habit he had developed, and replaced him with fellow tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley. Stitt, later in the 1960s, paid homage to one of his main influences, Charlie Parker, on the album Stitt Plays Bird, which features Jim Hall on guitar and at Newport in 1964 with other bebop players including J.J. Johnson.

He recorded a number of memorable records with his friend and fellow saxophonist Gene Ammons, interrupted by Ammons' own imprisonment for narcotics possession. The records recorded by these two saxophonists are regarded by many as some of both Ammons and Stitt's best work, thus the Ammons/Stitt partnership went down in posterity as one of the best duelling partnerships in jazz, alongside Zoot Sims and Al Cohn, and Johnny Griffin with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. Stitt would venture into soul jazz, and he recorded with fellow tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin in 1964 on the Soul People album. Stitt also recorded with Duke Ellington alumnus Paul Gonsalves in 1963 for Impulse! on the Salt And Pepper album in 1963. Around that time he also appeared regularly at Ronnie Scott's in London, a live 1964 encounter with Ronnie Scott, The Night Has A Thousand Eyes, eventually surfaced, and another in 1966 with resident guitarist Ernest Ranglin and British tenor saxophonist Dick Morrissey.

Later life

In the 1970s, Stitt slowed his recording output slightly, and in 1972, he produced another classic, Tune Up, which was and still is regarded by many jazz critics, such as Scott Yanow, as his definitive record. Indeed, his fiery and ebullient soloing was quite reminiscent of his earlier playing. Stitt was one of the first jazz musicians to experiment with an electric saxophone (the instrument was called a Varitone), as heard on the album Just The Way It Was - Live At The Left Bank, recorded in 1971 and released in 2000.

Stitt, joining the Giants of Jazz (which also featured Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and bassist Al McKibbon) on some albums for the Mercury Records label, and recording sessions for Cobblestone and other labels. His last recordings were made in Japan. In 1982, Stitt suffered a heart attack, and he died on July 22.

Discography

As leader

Kaleidoscope, 1950 - 1952, Prestige

Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements by Quincy Jones,1955, Roost (RST 2204)

Sonny Stitt, 1956, Roost (RST 2208)

For Musicians only, 1956, Verve (with Gillespie, Stan Getz, John Lewis, Ray Brown, Stan Levey)

Sonny Side Up, 1957, Verve (with Gillespie, Sonny Rollins)

Only the Blues, 1957, Verve (with Roy Eldridge and Oscar Peterson)

Sonny Stitt, 1958, MCA

Stitt Meets Brother Jack, Prestige 1962 (with Jack McDuff)

Boss Tenors in Orbit, 1962 Verve (with Gene Ammons)

Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio, 1959, Verve (with Peterson)

Salt And Pepper, 1963, Impulse

Stitt plays Bird, 1963, Atlantic, (with Jim Hall, John Lewis, Richard Davis, Connie Kay)

Soul People, 1964 - 1969, Prestige (with Booker Ervin)

Live at Ronnie Scott's (1965)

Turn it On!, 1971, Prestige

Just the Way It Was, 1971, Hyena, Recorded live at The Famous Ballroom, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, (with Don Patterson - organ; Billy James - drums)

Tune-Up!, 1972, Muse (with Barry Harris, Sam Jones, Allan Dawson)

Constellation, 1972

Sonny Stitt/12!, 1972, Muse

The Champ (1974)

Sonny's Back, 1980, Muse

Sonny, Sweets and Jaws- Live at Bubbas, Whos Who in Jazz 1981 (with Harry "Sweets" Edison, Eddie Lockjaw Davis)

Last Stitt Sessions, 1982, Muse

As Sideman

With Gene Ammons

Boss Tenors, 1961, Verve

With Art Blakey

A Jazz Message (1963) Impulse! Records

With Milt Jackson

Loose Walk (Palcoscenico Records)

With Zimbo Trio

Zimbo Trio invites Sonny Stitt, (1979) Clam/Continental

References

External links

Sonny Stitt at Verve Records

Sonny Stitt at the Hard Bop Homepage

BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Sonny Stitt

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Pete Johnson (March 25, 1904 – March 23, 1967) was an American jazz pianist.

Journalist 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".), featuring Turner on vocals and Johnson on piano, was one of the first rock and roll records, although there is strong reason to believe he stole that piece from Jelly Roll Morton who neglected to register his works, leaving him without claim to them. 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".

In the late 1940s, Johnson recorded an early concept album House Rent Party' , in which he starts out playing alone, supposedly in a new empty house, and is joined there by J. C. Higgenbotham, J.C. Heard, and other Kansas City players. Each has a solo single 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.

Johnson used to play at a nightclub in Niagara Falls where he had to climb a long ladder to the piano above the bar.

In 1950 he moved to Buffalo but, despite problems with his health, he continued to tour and record, notably with Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner, and on a 1958 Jazz at the Philharmonic tour of Europe, despite losing part of a finger some years earlier while changing a tire.

He died in Meyer Hospital, Buffalo, New York in March 1967, at the age of 62.

Discography

Notable songs

"1280 Stomp"

"627 Stomp"

"Basement Boogie"

"Buss Robinson Blues"

"Cherry Red"

"Death Ray Boogie"

"Goin' Away Blues"

"Holler Stomp"

"Just for You"

"Lone Star Blues"

"Pete's Blues"

"Pete's Lonsome Blues"

"Rebecca"

"Roll 'Em Pete"

Albums

1938-1939 Classics, 1938

King of Boogie Milan, 1939

Master of Blues and Boogie Woogie, Vol. 3 Oldie Blues, 1939

Boogie Woogie Mood (1940-1944) MCA ca. 1970

Pete's Blues Savoy, 1946

Central Avenue Boogie || Delmark 1993

Master of Blues and Boogie Woogie Oldie Blues 1975

1939-1941 Classics 1996

1944-1946 Classics 1997

Blues & Boogie Woogie Master 1938/1946 EPM Musique 1998

St. Louis Parties of July 20 & August 1, 1954 Document 1999

Roll 'Em Pete Pearl 1999

1947-1949 Classics 2000

Atomic Boogie: The National Recordings 1945-1947 Savoy Jazz 2001

Anthologies

The Boogie Wooge Boys || Magpie Records, 1994

Boogie Woogie Giants || Jazz Hour, 1995

50 Sublimes Chanteurs de Jazz, 1940-1953 || Body & Soul, 2003

Boogie Woogie || Membran, 2005, 10 discs

|| indicates in print, as of February, 2009

See also

Big Joe Turner

List of boogie woogie musicians

List of jazz pianists

List of people from Kansas City

Kansas City Jazz

First rock and roll record

References

External links

Early part of Pete Johnson's biography

Mini Johnson biography

[ Biography] at Allmusic website

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Name	Albert Ammons
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	Albert C. Ammons
Born	September 23, 1907Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died	December 02, 1949Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genre	Jazz, blues, boogie-woogie
Occupation	Pianist
Years active	1920s–1949
Label	Vocalion, Blue Note, Delmark, Mercury

Albert Ammons (September 23, 1907 — December 2, 1949) was an American pianist. Ammons was a player of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style popular from the late 1930s into the mid 1940s.

Life and career

Born Albert C. Ammons in Chicago, Illinois, his parents were pianists, and he had learned to play by the age of ten. He also played percussion in the drum and bugle corps as a teenager and was soon performing with bands on the Chicago club scene. After World War I he became interested in the blues, learning by listening to Chicago pianists Hersal Thomas and the brothers Alonzo and Jimmy Yancey. In the early to mid 1920s Ammons worked as a cab driver for the Silver Taxicab Company. In 1924 he met a fellow taxi driver who also played piano, Meade Lux Lewis. Soon the two players began working as a team, performing at club parties. Ammons started his own band at the Club DeLisa in 1934 and remained at the club for the next two years.

During that time he played with a five piece unit that included Guy Kelly, Dalbert Bright, Jimmy Hoskins, and Israel Crosby. Ammons also recorded as Albert Ammons's Rhythm Kings for Decca Records in 1936. The Rhythm Kings' version of "Swanee River Boogie" sold a million copies. Ammons moved from Chicago to New York, where he teamed up with another pianist, Pete Johnson.

Ammons played himself in the movie, Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944), with Lena Horne, and Pete Johnson. As a sideman with Sippie Wallace in the 1940s Ammons recorded a session with his son, the tenor saxophonist, Gene Ammons. He died in December 2, 1949 in Chicago and was interred at the Lincoln Cemetery, at Kedzie Avenue in Blue Island, Worth Township, Cook County, Illinois.

Legacy

Ammons has had wide influence on countless pianists such as Dave Alexander, Dr. John, Hadda Brooks, Johnnie Johnson, Ray Bryant, Erroll Garner, Katie Webster, Axel Zwingenberger, and the German pianist Joerg Hegemann. The latter honoured Ammons, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Ammons's birth in 2007, with his album A Tribute To Albert Ammons.

Album discography

Bibliography

Boogie Woogie Stomp - Albert Ammons & His Music by Christopher I. Page, 1997; ISBN 978-1-885066-32-9

See also

List of blues musicians

List of boogie woogie musicians

List of jazz pianists

List of Mercury Records artists

References

External links

E-Notes: Albert Ammons

BBC: Albert Ammons

Find a Grave

Jazz Police article on Albert Ammons Centennial Celebration

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Name	Utah Phillips
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Bruce Duncan Phillips
Birth date	May 15, 1935
Death date	May 23, 2008
Genre	Folk music
Occupation	Songwriter, performer, raconteur
Url	www.utahphillips.org

Bruce "Utah" Duncan Phillips (May 15, 1935 – May 23, 2008) was a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and the "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action, self-identifying as an anarchist. He often promoted the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words.

Biography

Early years

Phillips was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Edwin Deroger Phillips and Frances Kathleen Coates. He attended East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. His father, Edwin Phillips, was a labor organizer, and his parents' activism influenced much of his life's work. Phillips was a card-carrying member of the Industrial Workers of the World, the "wobblies," headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Phillips rode the railroads, and wrote songs.

He served in the United States Army for three years beginning in 1956 (at the latest). Witnessing the devastation of post-war Korea greatly influenced his social and political thinking.

Career

Following service, he returned to Salt Lake City, Utah, and joined Ammon Hennacy from the Catholic Worker Movement in establishing a mission house of hospitality named after the activist Joe Hill. Phillips worked at the Joe Hill House for the next eight years, then ran for the U.S. Senate as a candidate of Utah's Peace and Freedom Party in 1968. He received 2,019 votes (0.5%) in an election won by Republican Wallace F. Bennett. He also ran for president of the United States in 1976 for the Do-Nothing Party.

He adopted the name U. Utah Phillips in emulation of country vocalist T. Texas Tyler.

Phillips met folk singer Rosalie Sorrels in the early 1950s, and remained a close friend of hers. It was Sorrels who started playing the songs that Phillips wrote, and through her his music began to spread. After leaving Utah in the late 1960s, he went to Saratoga Springs, New York, where he was befriended by the folk community at the Caffé Lena coffee house, where he became a staple performer throughout that decade.

Phillips was a proud member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies). His view of unions and politics were shaped by his parents, especially his Mom who was a labor organizer for the CIO. But Phillips was more of a Christian anarchist and a pacifist, so found the modern-day Wobblies to be the perfect fit for him, an iconoclast and artist. In recent years, perhaps no single person did more to spread the Wobbly gospel than Phillips, whose countless concerts were, in effect, organizing meetings for the cause of labor, unions, anarchism, pacifism, and the Wobblies. He was a tremendous interpreter of classic Wobbly tunes including "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum," "The Preacher and the Slave," and "Bread and Roses."

An avid trainhopper, Phillips recorded several albums of music related to the railroads, especially the era of steam locomotives. His first recorded album, Good Though!, is an example, and contains such songs as "Daddy, What's a Train?" and "Queen of the Rails" as well as what may be his most famous composition, "Moose Turd Pie" wherein he tells a tall tale of his work as a gandy dancer repairing track in the Southwestern United States desert.

In 1991 Phillips recorded, in one take, an album of song, poetry and short stories entitled I've Got To Know, inspired by his anger at the first Gulf War. The album includes "Enola Gay," his first composition written about the United States' atomic attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Phillips was a mentor to Kate Wolf. He recorded songs and stories with Rosalie Sorrels on a CD called The Long Memory (1996), originally a college project "Worker's Doxology" for 1992 'cold-drill Magazine' Boise State University. His protégée, Ani DiFranco, recorded two CDs, The Past Didn't Go Anywhere (1996) and Fellow Workers (1999), with him. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his work with DiFranco. His "Green Rolling Hills" was made into a country hit by Emmylou Harris, and "The Goodnight-Loving Trail" became a classic as well, being recorded by Ian Tyson, Tom Waits, and others.

Later years

Though known primarily for his work as a concert performer and labor organizer, Phillips also worked as an archivist, dishwasher, and warehouse-man.

Phillips was a member of various socio-political organizations and groups throughout his life. A strong supporter of labor struggles, he was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers (Mine Mill), and the Travelling Musician's Union AFM Local 1000. In solidarity with the poor, he was also an honorary member of Dignity Village, a homeless community. A pacifist, he was a member of Veterans for Peace and the Peace Center of Nevada County. and the Peace and Justice Center. "It's my town. Nevada City is a primary seed-bed for community organizing." Later that autumn, Phillips announced that due to health problems he could no longer tour. By January 2008, he decided against a heart transplant.

Phillips died May 23, 2008 in Nevada City, California, from complications of heart disease, at the age of 73. He was survived by his wife, sons, Duncan and Brendan, and a daughter, Morrigan. Following a private service, a public memorial was held on June 1, in Pioneer Park, in Nevada City. His service was officiated by Meghan Cefalu, a Unitarian Universalist pastor.

Discography

{| | width="350pt" valign="top" | Studio albums

1992 I've Got to Know

1996 The Long Memory

1996 The Past Didn't Go Anywhere

1999 Fellow Workers

1997 Heart Songs

1997 Loafer's Glory

1999 The Moscow Hold

2005 Starlight on the Rails

| width="350pt" valign="top" | Other albums

1974 Good Though!

1975 El Capitan

1983 We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years

1985 Don't Mourn– Organize

1992 Rebel Voices

1997 Legends of Folk

1997 The Telling Takes Me Home

2000 Making Speech Free

2001 The Rose Tattoo

|}

Notes and references

External links

September 2003 Interview in The Progressive

Biography from the 1997 Folk Alliance Lifetime Achievement Awards

Summer 2005 Interview in "Unlikely Stories"

Fall 2005 Interview in YES! Magazine

Turtle Vision photo gallery of Utah Phillips

(Radio broadcast)

The “Golden Voice of the Great Southwest”, Utah Phillips memorial page on Democracy Now!

Utah Phillips interview with David Kupfer, The Progressive, September 2003.

"Voting for the First Time", by Carolyn Crane. The Nation. October 12, 2004.

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Meade Lux Lewis (September 1905 – June 7, 1964

A 1927 rendition of "Honky Tonk Train Blues" on the Paramount Records label marked his recording debut. with big band swing treatments by Tommy Dorsey, Will Bradley, and others; and numerous country boogie and early rock and roll songs.

He became the first jazz pianist to double on celeste (starting in 1936) and was featured on that instrument on a Blue Note quartet date with Edmond Hall and Charlie Christian.

Lewis died in a car accident in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1964, aged 58.

Legacy

Lewis was mentioned in Chapter 81 of author Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle.

References

External links

Meade Lux Lewis biography on African American Registry

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Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – July 23, 1974) "The "soul Jazz" movement of the mid-1960s, often using the combination of tenor saxophone and Hammond B3 electric organ, counts him as a founder. Often using a thinner, drier tone than Stitt or Gordon, Ammons could at will exploit a vast range of textures on the instrument, vocalizing it in ways that look forward to later artists like Stanley Turrentine, Houston Person, and remarkably Archie Shepp. Ammons showed little interest, however, in the modal jazz of John Coltrane, Joe Henderson or Wayne Shorter that was emerging at the same time.

Some fine ballad performances in his oeuvre are testament to an exceptional sense of intonation and melodic symmetry, powerful lyrical expressiveness, and mastery both of the blues and the bebop vernacular which can now be described as, in its own way, "classical."

"Answer Me, My Love" written by Fred Rauch, Carl Sigman and Gerhard Winkler, performed by Gene Ammons is featured on the soundtrack for Romance & Cigarettes (2005). Equipment: "Jug" played on a Bb Conn 10M Tenor Saxophone and a Brilhart Ebolin mouthpiece. Ammons is considered a major influence on the style of popular jazz tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman.

Ammons died in 1974, at the age of 49, after a battle with cancer.

Discography

Golden Saxophone (1952) (Savoy)

The Happy Blues (1956) (Prestige)

Jammin' with Gene (1956) (Prestige)

Funky (1957) (Prestige reissued on Original Jazz Classics)

Jammin' in Hi-fi (1957) (Prestige)

Blue Gene (1958) (Prestige)

Groove Blues (1958) (Prestige)

The Big Sound (1958) (Prestige)

The Swingin'est (1958) (Vee-Jay) with Bennie Green

Boss Tenor (1960) (Prestige)

Angel Eyes (1960) (Prestige)

Nice and Cool (1961) (Prestige)

Jug (1961) (Prestige)

Groovin' with Jug featuring Groove Holmes (1961) (Pacific Jazz)

Dig him featuring Sonny Stitt (1961) (Argo)

Boss Tenors Straight Ahead From Chicago with Sonny Stitt (1961) (Prestige)

Boss Tenors! with Sonny Stitt (1961) (Verve)

Just Jug (1961) (Argo)

Twisting the Jug (1961) (Prestige)

Boss Tenors In Orbit! (1962) (Verve)

Soul Summit (1962) (Prestige)

Soul Summit Vol. 2 (1962) (Prestige)

The Soulful Moods (1962) (Moodsville)

Blue Groove (1962) (Prestige)

Preachin' (1962) (Prestige)

Jug and Dodo w/ Dodo Marmarosa (1962) (Prestige)

Bad ! Bossa Nova (1962) (Prestige)

The Boss is Back (1969) (Prestige)

Brother Jug (1969) (Prestige)

Night Lights (1970) (Prestige)

Swingin' the Jug (1970) (Roots)

Hooray for Gene Ammons (1970) (Session)

The Chase with Dexter Gordon (1970) (Prestige)

The Black Cat (1970) (Prestige)

You Talk that Talk ! (1971) (Prestige)

My Way (1971) (Prestige)

Chicago Concert w/ James Moody (1971) (Prestige)

Free Again (1972) (Prestige)

God Bless Jug and Sonny (1973) (Prestige)

Left Bank Encores (1973) (Prestige)

And Friends at Montreux (1973) (Prestige)

In Sweden (1973) (Enja)

Brasswind (1973) (Prestige)

Together Again for the Last Time with Sonny Stitt (1973) (Prestige)

Goodbye (1974) (Original Jazz Classics)

Acid Jazz (1997) (Legends Of) (recorded 1962, 70, 71 Rudy Van Gelder) (Prestige)

References

External links

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MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music

Online 78 RPM Discographical Project - Aristocrat

Tribute to Gene Ammons

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Ammon McNeely (born June 3, 1970) is an American rock climber, who holds the most Speed Climbing World Records and First One Day Ascents on El Capitan in Yosemite. Other interests are: BASE jumping, wingsuiting, skydiving, surfing, skateboarding, trail running, mountain biking and snowboarding.

Ammon has been the conductor of many ascents on El Capitan, most of them in a day (under 24 hrs): Plastic Surgery Disaster, Wall of the Early Morning Light, Atlantic Ocean Wall, and most recent climbing one of the hardest routes on El Capitan, The Reticent Wall along with Dean Potter & Ivo Ninov in 74 hours and 57 minutes, shaving the existing time by more than five days.

He is recognized as having climbed El Capitan by the second highest number of routes - 58 times via 44 routes, behind Steve Gerberding who has climbed it via 57 different routes.

McNeely is the first (Nate Brown is the only other one) to have climbed all three routes on The Streaked Wall in Zion National Park, ascending all three routes with a First One Day Ascent.

Ammon is also a world-class slack liner and pioneered many highlines throughout the US

Some of his other El Capitan speed climbing accomplishments include:

Never Never Land: 16:00:02 - w/Chris McNamara - August 4, 2004 (First One Day Ascent)

Horse Chute: 20:39 - w/Chris McNamara - Oct 8, 2004 (First One Day Ascent)

Magic Mushroom: 55:15 - w/Ivo Ninov & Kevin Jaramillo - July 4-6th, 2005

The Reticent Wall: 34:57 - w/Dean Potter & Ivo Ninov - July 12-13, 2006

Wall of Early Morning Light: 23:43 - w/Brian McCray - September, 2004 (First One Day Ascent)

Pacific Ocean Wall: 33:02 - w/Ivo Ninov - May, 2004

New Jersey Turnpike: 14:00:02 - w/Brian McCray - September, 2002

Atlantic Ocean Wall: 23:38 - w/Brian McCray - August 04, 2004 (First One Day Ascent)

Native Sun: 23:53 - w/Ivo Ninov - May 15, 2006 (First One Day Ascent)

Iron Cross: 30:42 - w/Cedar Wright - May, 2004

Tangerine Trip: 10:24 - w/Cedar Wright - July, 2002

Virginia: 17:24 - w/Gabriel McNeely & Ivo Ninov - July 16, 2005

Lost in America: 18:04 - w/Brian McCray - August, 2004

Zenyatta Mondatta: 22:56 - w/Ivo Nivov & Kevin Jaramillo - June 27, 2005 (First One Day Ascent)

Plastic Surgery Disaster: 21:37 - w/Brian McCray - June, 2001 (First One Day Ascent)

Lunar Eclipse: 19:58 - w/Jose Pererya & Chongo - June, 2001

Born Under a Bad Sign: 22:22 - w/Chris Van Luevan & Erik Walden - October 2, 2001 (First One Day Ascent)

Eagle's Way: 9:08 - w/Brian McCray - August, 2004

Pressure Cooker: 23:41 - w/Ivo Ninov - September, 2004 (First One Day Ascent)

Get Whacked: 12:49 - w/Brian McCray - June, 2001 (First One Day Ascent)

External links

RocknClimb.com - Ammon's Website

Alpinist Article - Nine Records in 2003

Zodiac Ascent with Timmy O'Neill and his brother Sean, a paraplegic

One Day Ascent of Native Son

Podclimber Interview

Video: Realm of the Flying Monkeys

Article: The Zodiac with Ammon McNeely - written by Donald Perry

Gone Sufferin', Zion's Rodeo Queen - by: Chris McNamara

Category:1970 births Category:Living people Category:American rock climbers