The award-winning pianist and band leader has been hailed as one of San Diego’s cultural icons. She toured Europe multiple times as the musical director for singer Candye Kane before forming ...

SAN DIEGO — Sue Palmer became a San Diego favorite in the 1980s and 1990s as a key member of the bands Tobacco Road and the world-touring Candye Kane & The Swingin’ Armadillos. But when this ...

They didn't call him "the Killer" for nothing. Said Blackmore, “I was a big fan, but I was very frightened of him” ...

The Bamboo Bar at the famous Oriental Hotel was set up in 1953 during a period when the hotel had several owners, including ...

Tom Walbank has spent 25 years in Tucson, but in June, he's moving to Washington, D.C. He has a few more shows before he ...

She attended South Union High School, Class of 1948, where she sang in a group called The Trio and loved to play the boogie woogie on the piano for her classmates. In later years she performed ...

Ernest Borneman quotes Lead Belly in his book Just Jazz: “He played that Boogie Woogie. That’s what I wanted to play on guitar — that piano bass. I always wanted to play piano tunes.

Oscar Peterson, then 67 and one of the greatest jazz pianists ever, found his left hand flubbing the boogie-woogie ... the “maharajah of the piano”—struggled to play. After Peterson had ...

While in the army, he became interested in jazz and attempted to play trumpet, trombone and piano. In 1955 he took up playing the ... teaching himself to play boogie-woogie ... Gary McFarland was one ...