Tuesday evening Erik-Jan Overbeek - known professionally as "Mr. Boogie Woogie" - brings his hard-driving, take-no-prisoners style of piano playing to the Academy Village. An Arizona Daily Star review ...
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 ...
Clay Swafford would spend an hour at a time working on just the left-hand patterns. Listening to tracks from blues albums again and again, trying to learn by-ear the hip-shaking boogie-woogie-style of ...
Antoine "Fats" Domino, the jovial New Orleans entertainer whose bluesy singing and boogie-woogie piano style helped launch rock 'n' roll in the 1950s with such rollicking songs as "Blueberry Hill," ...
This new CD/DVD set from Marin boogie-woogie piano pounder Mitch Woods proves that the blues travels and translates well, moving people in different countries and cultures. The proof is in the dancing ...
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 ...