Albert Ammons Music

Yeah, this is the real deal: before the '50s revival of boogie-woogie and the invention of rock-a-billy, there was Albert Ammons and the original late '30s boogie-woogie--which was part of the natural evolution of jazz piano from the early ragtime of Joplin, via the stride of Morton and Johnson. A rockin' good disc!

This is the great boogie woogie pianist in various small band settings, including his tenor saxophonist son Gene, and if your feet don't start tapping to this Big Beat Bonanza, you might as well be dead.

The movie has a lot of great old songs that I remember my parents enjoying. But the CD doesn't capture them. And I don't like the ones that are on it. I bought is specifically for Nat King Cole's "I Remember You." Buy the movie DVD instead and enjoy the songs on it.

I bought the CD because I found it on a discount price and I guessed (rightly) that Nat King Cole sings with Stan Kenton orchestra on "Orange Colored Sky"...
Most of the album is taken by OK swing music by contemporary orchestra but there's also some dull Mark Isham orchestration, a bad Nat King Cole number with strings and, strangley enough, a Chet Baker track...

All in all, mostly for background mood uplifting...

Most of the tracks were excellent but some were a bit long winded.Tracks by Spencer Wyatt best on the disc and made it all worth while.

Do you like ethereal New Age? Gotcha covered. Does Boogie piano get your toes a-tappin'? Check. Is Swing more your thing? It's here. All fine reasons to add this sound track to your music collection. As for the movie, I like to think it Carrey's best work. The man has the most expressive face in Moviedom. Regarding the story, it's set in the early Fifties during the rabid Communist scaremongering headed by Senator Joseph McCarthy. One result was the blacklisting of suspected Communists and sympathizers in liberal Hollywood, of which our protagonist Peter Appleton became a victim.

To hear the roar of the crowd as the player goes in to slam dunk the basketball in the professional sports arenas,this film equals those thrills for the audience as Jim Carrey (Luke Trimble)takes us through the mind of someone that has amnesia and unwittingly becomes the hometown war hero set in 1945 period. Stars abound in this film like character actors Martin Landau and James Wittemore.Boy meets girl,they fall in love,then a twist in the plot as Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey) is accused of being a communist,similar to the Army McCarthy hearings for those old enough to remember.It all turns out like everyone wants.....Ed Lynch 10/29/06