Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson playing their song "Boogie Woogie Dream" for Lena Horne in 1944. | Dust-to-Digital

Meade "Lux Lewis" was one of the three great boogie-woogie pianists (along with Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson) whose appearance at John Hammond’s 1938 Spirituals to Swing concert helped start the boogie-woogie craze, Meade “Lux” Lewis was a powerful player. He performed regularly in Chicago in the late ’20s and his one solo record of the time, “Honky Tonk Train Blues” (1927), was considered a classic. However, other than a few sides backing little-known blues singers, Lewis gained little extra