Known for his electrifying live shows, boogie-woogie and blues pianist Henri Herbert is acclaimed as one of the most thrilling musicians on the contemporary blues and rock scene. His dazzling ...

A musical revue at Circa '21 saluting the roots of American rock will be anchored by a Dutch pianist. Eric-Jan Overbeek, also known as Mr. Boogie Woogie, who was born in the Netherlands, will bring ...

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 ...

Pianist Matthew Ball — "The Boogie Woogie Kid" — performs Oct. 14, 2023, at the Box Factory for the Arts in St. Joseph. ST. JOSEPH — Pianist Matthew Ball performs from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Box ...

Meade “Lux” Lewis didn’t just record a blues—he conjured a rolling landscape of rhythm and motion. Cut in 1928, “Honky Tonk Train Blues” demanded a great deal of the pianist: relentless drive, ...

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 ...

Songstress toasts nightly the piano teacher who taught her boogie-woogie The day Kelley Hunt, blues songstress/wicked boogie-woogie pianist, met Mary Burke Norton, the then 10-year-old Hunt was ...

Four acclaimed boogie-woogie artists will share two grand pianos and one grand stage for Lisa Otey's eighth annual Boogie Woogie Blowout. And at the end of the night, eight hands will share one piano ...