PTA Blues's video: Bottom Blues - Albert Ammons Rhythm Kings 1944

Bottom Blues seems an appropriate tune for these early images of the Burlesque. Burlesque was popular from the 1860s to the 1940s, in cabarets and clubs, as well as theaters, and featured bawdy comedy and female striptease. American burlesque shows were originally an offshoot of Victorian burlesque. The uninhibited atmosphere of burlesque establishments owed much to the free flow of liquor. In New York, Mayor La Guardia clamped down on burlesque, effectively putting it out of business by the early 1940s. Albert Ammons Rhythm Kings on Commodore 1516. Recorded in NYC on 2/12/1944. Ammons, piano; "Hot Lips" Page, Trumpet; Vic Dickenson, Trombone; Don Byas, Tenor sax; Israel Crosby, Bass; "Big Sid" Catlett, drums.