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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Boogie-woogie 2, pandemic 0 Pianist Erwin Helfer has survived more than a virus to carry forward the legacy of the progenitors of blues and jazz. by Steve Krakow September 21, 2022 September 26, 2022 ...