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 Wednesday evening ...

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 ...

Boogie-woogie is a driving blues piano style that features a rolling, “eight-to-the-bar” rhythm. It’s based on ostinato bass figures in 8/8 time, and mostly uses the 12-bar blues harmonic scheme.

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The black and white keys of the piano sound beautiful when played with love, and few people truly ...