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Ian Armit was born on April 11, 1929 in Fife, Scotland. He played in Sandy Brown’s band in 1957, and that same year he released the solo EP Jazz Club Piano on Decca Records. The late 1950s saw him as part of the band by Humphrey Lyttelton and was part of the recording sessions by Al Fairweather, Cy Laurie, and Wally Fawkes.

In the 1960s Armit worked in the British blues scene with Alexis Korners Blues Incorporated, with Rod Stewart and toured the United States with the singer Long John Baldry in 1971. As a session musician, he worked with Sandy Denny, Bob Wallis, and went on a European tour.

Moving to Switzerland, he led his own quartet, recorded his Ian’s Boogie Woogie with the Old Rivertown Jazz Band and performed with Piccadilly Six, the Harlem Rambler and other local blues bands. Pianist Ian Armit, who recorded five albums as a leader from 1954 to 1976, passed away on February 18, 1992, in Zurich, Switzerland.

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