solos, including "The Blues" and "Boogie Woogie Stomp", eight by Lewis and two duets in a one-day session in a rented recording studio. In 1941, Ammons's boogie-woogie music was accompanied by drawn-on-film animation in the short film Boogie-Doodle, by Norman McLaren. Ammons played himself in the movie Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944), with Lena Horne and Johnson. As a sideman with Sippie Wallace in the 1940s Ammons recorded a session with his son, the tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons. Although the boogie-woogie fad began to die down in 1945, Ammons had no difficulty securing work. He continued to tour as a solo artist, and between 1946 and 1949 recorded his last sides, for Mercury Records, with the bassist Israel Crosby, and took on the position of staff pianist with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. In 1949 he played at the inauguration of President Harry S. Truman. During his last years, Ammons played mainly at the Beehive Club and the Tailspin Club in Chicago. Four days before he died, he had been at the Yancey apartment listening to Don Ewell and Jimmy Yancey play. Ammons could play only one song, having just regained the use of his hands after a temporary paralysis. Ammons died of natural causes on December 2, 1949, in Chicago, around three months before his 43rd birthday. He was interred at the Lincoln Cemetery, at Kedzie Avenue in Blue Island, Worth Township, Cook County, Illinois. Legacy Ammons has had a wide influence on countless pianists, such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Dave Alexander, Dr. John, Hadda Brooks, Johnnie Johnson, Ray Bryant, Erroll Garner, Katie Webster, Axel Zwingenberger, Henri Herbert, Steve "Big Man" Clayton and the German pianist, Jörg Hegemann. The latter honored Ammons, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Ammons' birth, with his album, A Tribute to Albert Ammons. Discography Notable songs "Boogie Woogie Stomp" "Boogie Woogie Prayer" "Shout for Joy" "Woo-Woo" (1939) (Columbia 35958, C44-2) Selected albums Bibliography Page, Christopher I. (1997). Boogie Woogie Stomp: Albert Ammons & His Music. . 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 Jazz Police article on Albert Ammons Centennial Celebration 1941 short film Boogie-Doodle The story of his life is retold in the radio drama "Of Blood and the BoogieFather to Son", a presentation from Destination Freedom 1907 births 1949 deaths Boogie-woogie