Perfect for intermediate to advanced players looking to improve blues phrasing and boogie technique. Step into the world of one of jazz piano’s great masters. Detroit Three automakers blast ...

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 ...

So what is the boogie-woogie style of piano playing? “It was first recorded in the 1920s, but no one really knows where it started,” he said. “It was meant to get people dancing and having a ...

Boogie-woogie is a piano blues that rides a 12-bar loop. The left hand delivers a pulsing ostinato—staccato and insistent—while the right hand fires off free-spirited flares, layering ...

“I’d never heard it done that way before — I’d never heard boogie woogie before! — and a light bulb went off. My piano teacher gave me the sheet music for Pinetop Smith’s (1928 ...

While at Ace Records, Smith also wrote and recorded the single “Sea Cruise” in 1958; Smith’s vocals — but not his boogie piano — were ultimately stripped from the track and replaced by ...

1535 Santa Barbara St. Main doors open at 6:45 p.m. Known by some as the Boss of the Boogie, piano man and vocalist Rio plays the boogie-woogie and jump blues of the 1940s and ’50s with a style ...

Musician Jan Preston has a Levin gig booked. A performer widely known as the Queen of the Boogie Piano will hit the keys next Friday tonight. Jan Preston plays festivals and concerts throughout ...