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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Brad starts his boogie-woogie bass, his duet partner immediately lights up in musical inspiration. Over Brad’s bass, Lucy first adds some percussive, ... The Leeds Piano Festival takes place every ...

Around 2011, Swafford’s rep was big enough he got to be part of a boogie-woogie piano documentary called “Falsifyin’” featuring the likes rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, blues standout ...

My piano teacher gave me the sheet music for Pinetop Smith’s (1928 song) ‘Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie.’ From there, I got into Ray Charles and I just kept going. I got the boogie-woogie bug ...

Huey “Piano” Smith, whose two-fisted keyboard style and rambunctious songs propelled the sound of New Orleans R&B into the pop Top 10 in the late 1950s, died on Feb. 13 at his home in Baton Rouge.