Artist's albums
Wie man seinen Papa aktualisiert
2023 · audiobook
Wie man im Chaos überlebt
2022 · audiobook
Wie man seine Lehrer erzieht
2022 · audiobook
Wie man 13 wird und die Nerven behält (Wie man 13 wird 5)
2022 · audiobook
Wartime Swinger
2021 · album
Wie man seine Eltern richtig groß rausbringt (Eltern 6)
2021 · audiobook
Wie man seine Eltern sinnvoll beschäftigt (Eltern 5)
2021 · audiobook
Body Star Deep Soul
2020 · album
Two Tropicana Workshop
2020 · album
New Music In There
2020 · EP
Pete Johnson Plays Pete Johnson
2020 · album
Happy Hour
2020 · album
Boogie
2018 · album
For You
2018 · album
Wie man seinen Eltern das Internet erklärt (Eltern 4)
2016 · audiobook
Giants Of Boogie Woogie
2015 · album
Stardust
2015 · album
Wie man mit seinen verrückten Eltern fertig wird (Eltern 3)
2015 · audiobook
Wie man 13 wird und zum Superhelden mutiert (Wie man 13 wird 4)
2014 · audiobook
Wie man seine peinlichen Eltern erträgt (Eltern 2)
2013 · audiobook
Wie man 13 wird und die Welt rettet (Wie man 13 wird 3)
2012 · audiobook
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Biography
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. Originally a drummer, Johnson switched to piano in 1922. He was part of the Kansas City scene in the 1920s and '30s, often accompanying singer Big Joe Turner. Producer John Hammond discovered him in 1936 and got him to play at the Famous Door in New York. After taking part in Hammond's 1938 Spirituals to Swing Carnegie Hall concert in 1938, Johnson started recording regularly and appeared on an occasional basis with Ammons and Lewis as the Boogie Woogie Trio. He also backed Turner on some classic records. Johnson recorded often in the 1940s and spent much of 1947-1949 based in Los Angeles. He moved to Buffalo in 1950 and, other than an appearance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, he was in obscurity for much of the decade. A stroke later in 1958 left him partly paralyzed. Johnson made one final appearance at John Hammond's January 1967 Spirituals to Swing concert, playing the right hand on a version of "Roll 'Em Pete" two months before his death. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi