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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.
It’s commonly accepted that the roots of Rock and Roll go back about 170 years to the beginnings of boogie woogie music. And that music began in East Texas along the railroad. This weekend the second ...
The music at uptown Café Society was nothing new to its downtown habitues. Two of the boogie-woogie players, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis, pounded two pianos. Teddy Wilson, rippling ...
MARSHALL, Texas (KLTV) - The music which started Rock and Roll began right here in East Texas about 150 years ago. And at the Texas and Pacific Railway Museum at the Marshall train depot, you can ...
The Dutch painter's "Broadway Boogie-Woogie" shows how his art reduced empirical things to a binary language of vertical and horizontal lines.
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.
And while Charles is fully committed to "The Story of Boogie Woogie," he hesitates to put a tombstone over the Ezra Charles Band. "I saw a post on Facebook that says we broke up," he says.
A young musician brings an old-school festival to the Blues Museum Chase Garrett, a St. Louis transplant and key member of our trad-jazz scene, is importing his Blues & Boogie Woogie Piano Stomp ...
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.
Queen of boogie woogie Sue Palmer celebrates 25 years with her Motel Swing Orchestra The award-winning former Tobacco Road and Candye Kane pianist is hailed as 'a musical icon in San Diego' ...