Throughout the following decade, the band played around Detroit and other Northern cities, performing at nightspots like the Brass Rail Theater Bar and Baker's Keyboard Lounge, with various big name musicians passing through Detroit, including Nat King Cole and Erroll Garner.
Ames also taught many students over the years, including pianist and Greenwood native Mulgrew Miller, to whom he gave his first jazz piano lessons.
[4] Their long relationship (until his death) was the subject of an award-winning 1999 television documentary, Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound.
[9] The duo's final appearance together was in the 2002 South African television production, Forty Days in the Delta, a blues documentary series taped in Mississippi shortly before Ames' death.
In addition to this posthumous appearance, Ames performed the duet "Darkness on the Delta" with Cassandra Wilson on her 2002 album, Belly of the Sun.