Dueling piano boogie from Michigan rock and blues legends. Dueling piano boogie from Michigan rock and blues legends Bob Seeley and Bob Baldori. "If it doesn't make you want to get up and dance, then ...
Mark “Mr. B” Braun, the area’s busiest boogie woogie piano specialist, is not letting the 25th anniversary of Blues & Piano Boogie Celebration go by quietly. As part of a nearly week-long celebration ...
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 see it, ...
Huey “Piano” Smith, the R&B pianist and composer whose 1950s hits “Don’t You Just Know It” and “Rockin’ Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu” added New Orleans spice to the early rock ‘n’ roll recipe, died ...
Johnny B. travels throughout Alaska by bush plane to play boogie-woogie piano music Johnny B. travels throughout Alaska by bush plane to play his signature boogie-woogie piano music to remote ...
Boogie Woogie queen Jan Preston and her trio. Kiwi Jan Preston was always drawn to the boogie-woogie style of piano playing, made popular by Black Americans in the 1930s, so it's no surprise that her ...
Hadda Brooks, who first rose to fame on the piano in the mid-1940s as “Queen of the Boogie” and became a popular torch singer with hits such as “That’s My Desire,” has died. She was 86. Brooks, who ...
With songs like “Don’t You Just Know It,” “Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” and “Sea Cruise,” he put a firm backbeat behind joyful nonsense. By Jon Pareles Huey “Piano” Smith, whose ...