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	Encyclopedia: Meade Lux Lewis
		Meade Anderson "Lux" Lewis (1905 - 1964) was a United States pianist and composer noted for his work in the Boogie Woogie style.
		Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois in September of 1905 (September 3rd, 4th, and 13th are given as his birthdate in various sources).
		Meade "Lux" Lewis died in an automobile accident in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1964.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Meade-Lux-Lewis (521 words)

	African American Registry: Meade Lux Lewis, true Boogie Woogie piano.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois and helped establish boogie-woogie as a major blues piano style in the 1930s and 1940s.
		Lewis took the rollicking piano form out of the clubs and cathouses and onto the concert stage in 1938 where its fast-flowing rhythms and charging solos delighted audiences and eventually laid the groundwork for rhythm & blues and later rock & roll.
		Lewis died in an automobile crash on February the 7th in 1964 in Minneapolis.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1149/Meade_Lux_Lewis_true_Boogie_Woogie_piano (443 words)

	Jazz \| All About Jazz
		Meade Anderson Lewis was born September 4, 1905, in Chicago and died June 7, 1964 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in a car accident.
		Lewis did various things to survive at the time, the beginning of the Depression: he dug ditches for the Works Progress Administration and he returned to taxicab driving.
		Lewis was an excellent whistler and could whistle the blues with the ease of a trumpet-like style.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /bios/mllbio.htm (789 words)

	Meade Lux Lewis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Lewis was born in (additional info and facts about Chicago, Illinois) Chicago, Illinois in September of 1905 (September 3rd, 4th, and 13th are given as his birthdate in various sources).
		In his youth he was influenced by pianist (additional info and facts about Jimmy Yancey) Jimmy Yancey.
		Meade "Lux" Lewis died in an automobile accident in (additional info and facts about Minneapolis, Minnesota) Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1964.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/meade_lux_lewis.htm (160 words)

	Meade Lux Lewis b
		Although he was popular in Chicago bars in the '20s, Lewis was little known elsewhere and made his living running a taxicab firm with fellow-pianist Albert Ammons.
		Encouraged by Hammond and the enormous success of Honky Tonk Train Blues, which he re-recorded in 1936 (and later), Lewis became one of the most popular and successful of the pianists to enjoy fleeting fame during the boogie-woogie craze.
		From the mid-'30s onwards, Lewis often played celeste and such records, together with those he made in the early '40s with Edmond Hall's Celeste Quartet, where the remaining members of the group were Israel Crosby and Charlie Christian, showed him to be much more versatile than his mass audience appeared to assume.
	www.centrohd.com /biogra/l2/meade_lux_lewis_b.htm (197 words)

	SummerWind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Since 1957, Lewis has performed concerts in all the major clubs, jazz festivals and summer venues in the United States and with more than twenty-five symphony orchestras.
		Lewis is on the board of the Merit Music Program, which provides free music lessons to youth; Cycle, an inner-city self-help high school program; and the Ravinia Mentor Program.
		Residing in Chicago, Lewis has been married to Janet Tamillow Lewis since 1990 and is the father of seven children, grandfather of twelve and great-grandfather of one.
	www.swind.org /matriarch/OnePiecePage.asp?PageID=98&PageName=RamseyLewis (351 words)

	Meade Lux Lewis' Honky Tonk Train: 1927-1961 by Colin Davey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Hammond sought Meade Lux Lewis for years, and finally found him working in a car wash. Hammond put Lewis in Carnegie Hall (with Ammons and Johnson) for the Sprituals to Swing concerts of ‘38 and ‘39.
		Lewis performed Honky Tonk Train at both of these concerts, and these concerts led to the boogie woogie craze of the 1940’s.
		After the boogie woogie craze ended, Lewis continued to record this piece, but performed it in a wooden fashion, at a breakneck speed.
	www.colindavey.com /BoogieWoogie/articles/htt.htm (343 words)

	VH1.com : Meade "Lux" Lewis : Biography
		Soon, Lewis was back on records and after the 1938, concert he was able to work steadily, sometimes in duets or trios with Ammons and Johnson.
		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; 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, although by then he was pretty much forgotten.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/lewis_meade_lux/bio.jhtml (272 words)

	The HistoryMakers
		Lewis attended Chicago Music College Preparatory School from 1947 to 1954.
		In 1956, he formed the Ramsey Lewis jazz trio and signed with Chess Records in 1957 for the Trio's first album.
		Lewis recorded for Columbia Records from 1971 to 1974 and signed with GRP Records in 1991.
	www.thehistorymakers.com /biography/biography.asp?bioindex=317&category=musicMakers (371 words)

	Boogie-Woogie Artists
		Ammons recorded with the other pianists in duets and trios, fit right in with the Port of Harlem Jazzmen on their Blue Note session, appeared regularly at Cafe Society, recorded as a sideman with Sippie Wallace in the 1940s and he even cut a session with his son, the great tenorman Gene Ammons.
		Pete Johnson was one of the three great boogie-woogie pianists (along with Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis) whose sudden prominence in the late '30s helped make the style very popular.
		Soon Meade Lux Lewis was back on records and after the 1938 concert he was able to work steadily, sometimes in duets or trios with Ammons and Johnson.
	www.history-of-rock.com /boogiewoogie_artists.htm (963 words)

	Ramsey Lewis and Nancy Wilson
		Ramsey Lewis began at the age of 4 with piano lessons, studying the basics and the fundamentals.
		Lewis is happy with the mix, noting that it carefully “draws from standards, originals and the pop/RandB field.
		Lewis and Wilson’s latest round of interactions was sparked by a meeting at the 2001 Ravinia Festival in Chicago, for which Lewis serves as Artistic Director of Jazz.
	www.narada.com /images/ArtistBio/lewis/ramsey_lewis_and_nancy_wilson.htm (2092 words)

	Boogie-Woogie Downloads - Download Boogie-Woogie Music - Download Boogie-Woogie MP3s
		Boogie-woogie enjoyed its heyday in the early '40s, and as a result, one-time Chicago barrelhouse pianists such as Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson found themselves feted as celebrities in New York’s exclusive café society circles.
		The classic boogie-woogie performances of Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson have never been put out completely and in chronological order, although some sessions have been reissued many times.
		Because the performances (recorded at the Hotel Sherman in 1939 and in an obscure studio session in 1938 that adds bassist Herbert Marshall) are not issued in chronological order, and since the music switches between the pianists, it can be a bit confusing trying to figure out who is playing when.
	www.mp3.com /genre/542/subgenre.html (2754 words)

	Southwest Blues Magazine The number one blues magazine in the Southwest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		And it was the likes of Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson that made boogie-woogie so popular in the late 1930s and 1940s.
		Albert Ammons is featured as a solo performer on half the tracks with four tracks by Meade Lux Lewis and two by Pete Johnson.
		Delmark records should be commended for their efforts in tracking down wonderful rare recordings such as these and allowing us to enjoy music that had been lost for many decades.
	www.southwestblues.com /aammons.htm (282 words)

	Masters of the Boogie Piano: Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson & Others
		The history of jazz and blues piano is an interesting one, and it benefits from being told separately from the history of jazz musis in general.
		Recorded in 1939, at the height of the boogie-woogie craze, this piece gives a good idea of the excitement that a boogie pianist could generate despite the relatively simple elements of the music.
		Albert Ammons is, of course, one of the biggest of the originators of the boogie woogie piano style (others include Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson, and Jimmy Yancey), and his “Hersal Blues,” (named after another of his influences, blues pianist Hersal Wallace) recorded in 1939, demonstrates why.
	www.jazzitude.com /boogiepiano_delmark.htm (1353 words)

	LEWIS, Meade Lux : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		LEWIS, Meade Lux : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music
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		10]im[ LP Boogie Woogie Interpretations on Atlantic, Cat House Piano and Meade Lux on Verve, Out Of The Roaring Twenties on ABC-Paramount, Blues Boogie Woogie on Stinson; three-disc limited edition The Complete Blue Note Recordings Of Albert Ammons And Meade Lux Lewis on Mosaic '83 incl.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/l/L61.HTM (135 words)

	Boogie Woogie Piano: From Barrelhouse to Carnegie Hall by Colin Davey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It has had a major influence on blues, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, jazz, and pop, yet it has been widely neglected in the history books and is frequently misunderstood.
		The next generation of boogie woogie performers carried the music to a new level of refinement; especially Albert Ammons (1907-49) and Meade Lux Lewis (1905-64) in Chicago, and Pete Johnson (1904-67) in Kansas City.
		In 1927, Meade Lux Lewis first recorded Honky Tonk Train, his most famous boogie woogie.
	www.colindavey.com /BoogieWoogie/articles/ofamart.htm (1354 words)

	Blue Note Records
		Did Mead Lux Lewis have any sisters and brothers that played piana.
		They have been copied ever since by countless admirers and disciples, none of which ever succeeded in capturing their techniques and feelings, their tremendous walking bass of the left and the breathless improvised trebles of the right hand.
		Ammons and Lewis, alongside Pete Johnson, have set the pattern of classical Boogie Woogie, and every attempt to sound like either one of them means love's labor's lost.
	www.bluenote.com /detail.asp?SelectionID=9233 (168 words)

	JR.com: Albert Ammons/Meade Lux Lewis - The First Day in Music: Boogie Woogie: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This is a historically significant meeting between stalwart boogie woogie pianists Ammons and Lewis.
		On THE FIRST DAY, Ammons and Lewis do indeed produce some of the most pristine blues and boogie woogie that had ever been or would ever be recorded.
		Ammons and Lewis were, far and away, the greatest practitioners of their Chicagoan style.
	www.jr.com /JRProductPage.process?Product=3913397 (542 words)

	Rykodisc Catalog - Tidal Boogie - Meade "Lux" Lewis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		After releasing one record of honky tonk piano in 1929, Meade "Lux" Lewis remained in obscurity until producer John Hammond sought him out and found him washing cars in Chicago.
		Subsequent albums and concert dates brought Lewis to the forefront of the boogie-woogie renaissance of the late Thirties and early Forties, leading the way with Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson.
		This album retains all the energy and verve of the barrel house boogie-woogie style that Leonard Feather first described as having a "great intensity and excitement in its fiercely insistent bass figures and repetitious right-hand riffs."
	www.rykodisc.com /Catalog/dump/rykoalbums_61.asp (105 words)

	Boogie-woogie piano
		Boogie-woogie is a term used for the start of the development of rhythm and blues (and eventually rock and roll) out of swing music.
		Born in Chicago, Albert Ammons was an extraordinary blues pianist of his time, a first-class exponent of boogie-woogie in the 1930s and '40s, along with Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis.
		He would often perform with Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis.
	www.timeisonourside.com /STBoogie.html (359 words)

	JR.com: Meade Lux Lewis - Boogies & Blues in Music: Boogie Woogie: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Personnel include: Meade Lux Lewis (piano); Albert Ammons (piano); Edmond Hall Celeste Quartet, Port Of Harlem Seven.
		The Blues Piano Artistry Of Meade Lux Lewis Gliding From Glendale To Chicago
		Albert Ammons Albert Ammons/Meade Lux Lewis Albert Ammons/Pete Johnson Albert Ammons/Johnson/Lewis
	www.jr.com /JRProductPage.process?Product=3863025 (416 words)

	InfoComm - Techni-Lux lights Lewis MDA/Hurricane Katrina telethon
		InfoComm International reserves the right to modify the release for language or claims that may be offensive to competing companies.
		ORLANDO, Fla. -- Techni-Lux lighting of Orlando Florida was called upon to light the Central Florida Jerry Lewis Labor Day telethon. This annual telethon now in its 40th year was also instrumental in raising funds for the Hurricane Katrina effort.
		Techni-Lux lighting provided SGM Giotto 400 Spot and Wash fixtures, a Regia control console and Palco LED fixtures for the studio. Additional support gear was also provided by PRG Orlando. The SGM lights were selected for their quiet operation and color balance for video.
	www.infocomm.org /index.cfm?objectID=216FF312-9E70-40B3-945A43021BA964F9 (292 words)

	Oldies.com : Mary Lou Williams / Meade Lux Lewis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Oldies.com : Mary Lou Williams / Meade Lux Lewis
		She taught herself piano by ear, worked in Vaudeville, and was a great stride pianist.
		On this album featuring Mead Lux Lewis, one of the great boogie woogie pianists who helped start the boogie woogie craze in the late '30s, you'll hear why Williams is still revered today.
	www.oldies.com /artist/view.cfm/id_737.html (140 words)

	Meade Lux Lewis: 1927-1939 : Popular Music
		This is a great disc which I'm surprized to find is still in print.
		It features the late great Meade Lux Lewis on solo piano performing his standard classic boogie-woogie.
		Moreover, this disc has some really, really rare extended tracks of Meade playing some original blues for which he had an especial talent which is now not much remembered.
	www.ourshop.net /cat/item_id-B000001NO3/search_type-AsinSearch/templates-1/locale-us.html (77 words)

	StreetSwing's Dance History Archives - Boogie Woogie Dance Page - Main1
		The boogie Woogie has a definite distinctive 8 beat rhythm that makes you want to swing.
		Rockabilly style was a fusion of Blues and Boogie Woogie by white singers or musicians such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis etc.
		Today the Europeans have a dance they call 'Boogie Woogie', It is in the Le Roc / Ceroc / Jive family of swing dances.
	www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3booge1.htm (448 words)

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	VH1.com : Meade "Lux" Lewis : Artist Main
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