Chase Garrett’s among a small crop of young pianists to move to St. Louis over the last few years, each of them digging into classic veins of American songcraft. Playing around town as a solo act and ...
Think of the legendary rock and roll piano players of the rock n’ roll era — Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, even Liberace. Which would you pick to ...
Underneath the sculpture of Professor Longhair that hangs atop the Acura Stage at Jazz Fest was, very appropriately, a grand piano. And in the true spirit of the legendary New Orleans piano innovator, ...
CD compilations of boogie woogie piano abound, particularly on cheap import CD labels, but this domestic bargain is a strikingly attractive sampler. Drawing from Delmark's half-century old blues ...
The Bloomington Blues and Boogie Woogie Piano Festival will return for its seventh year this Sunday, including 10 artists performing blues, boogie woogie and other related music styles. The festival ...
If you’ve been to Tipitina’s or the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, or listened to the likes of Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Art Neville, Jon Cleary, James Booker or Marcia Ball, you’re ...
Boogie-woogie is a kind of blues piano playing in which the left hand drones a set bass phrase over & over, while the right hand goes to town with whatever variations the player can think up. Its form ...
The subtext is simple—a perfectly balanced left hand augmented by a bouncing, out-of-control right hand crossed with the 12-bar blues turned from 33&1/3 to 78. All of this equals boogie woogie piano.
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