DOUG SUGGS

Doug Suggs was a St. Louis pianist who relocated to Chicago for a portion of his career. He made his only recordings later in life, although prior to that Albert Ammons recorded a rendition of Suggs’s Sweet Patootie for the Library of Congress in 1938. Suggs was able to make his own recording of Sweet Patootie later in 1957 along with a few other pieces. Suggs played in a more understated manner than Ammons, in line with the St. Louis barrelhouse style.

Another one of Suggs’s recordings, Doug’s Jump, appears to have some Chicago influence in the accompaniment pattern. Here the standing bass features a chromatic descending figure first used by George W. and Hersal Thomas in The Fives.

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