Charles Avery

Very little is well known of blues pianist Charles Avery, though his 1 extant recording, “Dearborn Street Breakdown,” reveals several clues. The name along with the type of the particular documenting suggests a solid Chicago connection, the feeling reinforced from the affiliates with whom he’s known to possess played and documented. About twenty years later on, information like “Dearborn Road Break down,” which shows a prodigious piano technique, with just a little accompaniment added, would end up being the stuff which really good rock and roll & move was made.