Boogie woogie is alive and well. It’s in good hands, those of the East Bay’s Wendy DeWitt. Known as “Queen of Boogie-Woogie Piano,” DeWitt headlines Redwood City’s Club Fox Blues Jam ...

Fresh Air 's jazz critic reviews Boogie Woogie and Blues Piano, a new box set featuring remastered recordings from music greats such as Chicago's Jimmy Yancy, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson. It ...

Courtesy photo Boogie-woogie ... just the name conjures up images of a smoky bar and a man pounding out tunes at a corner piano. It's a music that was popular in the 1930s and '40s, and Matthew ...

Local favorite Arthur Migliazza and Tucson's favorite import, Eric-Jan "Mr. Boogie Woogie" Overbeek from the Netherlands, will throw down in a battle royale for piano-playing supremacy.

Today, the definition of boogie-woogie generally relates to solo piano music. It’s characterized by repetitive, swinging blues bass lines that run continuously under the highly improvised melodies.

Fifty years ago, Boston boogie-woogie pianist Preacher Jack saw his idol, Jerry Lee Lewis, perform at the old Boston Arena. It has remained the most influential event of his life. “I can still ...

The black and white keys of the piano sound beautiful when played with love, and few people truly love the piano as much as jazz, blues and boogie-woogie pianist Mark Lincoln Braun, who will be ...

Mr. Perkins was considered an elder of boogie-woogie and blues piano and was one of the last of a generation who learned the music in juke joints and house parties in the Deep South, rather than ...

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 ...

Advertisement He did, however, take two months off after breaking the pinky finger on his left hand. That can be pretty serious if you happen to be Michigan’s premier boogie-woogie piano player.

In 1981, he produced (and played a little piano on) a live record by Rocket 88, a celebration of authentic jump band boogie-woogie, largely a showcase for pianist Bob Hall and saxophonist Hal ...