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Personnel: Pete Johnson (piano); Jewel Grant (alto saxophone); Maxwell Davis (tenor saxophone); Charles Norris, Johnny Rogers, Carl Lynch, Herman Mitchell (guitar); Bill Davis, Al McKibbon, Bill Cooper, Johnny Parker, Ralph Hamilton (bass); J.C. Heard, Roy Milton, Jesse Price, Al "Cake" Wichard, Jesse Sailes (drums). Recorded in 1947 and 1949. Includes liner notes by Anatol Schenker. Personnel: Pete Johnson (piano); Johnny Rogers, Charles Norris, Herman Mitchell, Carl Lynch (guitar); Jewell L. Grant (alto saxophone); Maxwell Davis (tenor saxophone); Al Wichard, J.C. Heard , Jesse Price, Roy Milton, Jesse Sailes (drums). Liner Note Author: Anatol Schenker. Recording information: Los Angeles, CA (04/18/1947-04/??/1949); New York, NY (04/18/1947-04/??/1949). Classics #1110 is the fourth installment chronicling 21 final key recordings of boogie woogie pianist Pete Johnson. 1947-1949 found Johnson leading three different quartets (the second with Al Mckibbon on bass and J.C. Heard on drums) for the Apollo, Modern, and French Jazz Selection labels, while the final session features a sextet on six tracks, blistering through the excellent "Rocket 88 Boogie, Parts 1 and 2" for the Down Beat/Swingtime label. These sessions have a common thread in the predominate use of guitar from Charles Norris, Carl Lynch, Johnny Rogers, and Herman Mitchell thoroughly featured alongside Johnson's piano throughout. Soon after these sessions Johnson left his West Coast home for Buffalo where he essentially retired, showing up occasionally at the odd live appearance or on other musicians' sessions. ~ Al Campbell
