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 also ...

♪ Well my mama don't allow me ♪ ♪ To stay out all night long ♪ ♪ Cause my mama didn't allow me ♪ ♪ To stay out all night long ♪ ♪ I didn't care what she didn't allow ♪ ♪ I wanted to boogie woogie ...

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, ...

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 ...

A highly influential blues and boogie-woogie pianist, Pinetop Perkins spent over 10 years playing with the legendary Muddy Waters before going on to enjoy widespread acclaim as a solo act. Joe Willie ...

The Gulf Coast blues singer and pianist Marcia Ball says her music reflects a sense of place as well as a state of mind. “My experiences living in Louisiana and Texas have been a really great ...

“Long tall Marcia Ball” is the hottest blues, rhythm and blues, and funky piano player this side of Professor Longhair himself. A Louisiana native who’s now based in Austin, Texas, blues singer and ...

Here’s how the cheer goes:The cheerleaders say, enthusiastically, “We gonna do that boogie-woogie!”The crowd answers, “Yeah, man.”The cheerleaders repeat, “We gonna do that boogie-woogie!”The crowd, ...

Artists from near and far will be descending on Maryport this weekend for the annual Blues Festival. The headlining act has been personally recommended by Buddy Guy, who headlined last year’s festival ...

Boogie-woogie was a piano style that began sometime in the early 20th century — and, by the 1930s, became a huge pop-music fad. Here, rock historian Ed Ward explains how the genre re-emerged in ...