…[5] Ammons played himself in the movie Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944), with Lena Horne and Pete Johnson.[6] As a sideman with Sippie Wallace in the 1940s Ammons recorded a session with his son, the tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons.[3] Although the boogie-woogie fad began to die down in 1945 Ammons ...