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, ...

MOUNT DORA — When he was a young child, Tommy Johnson came home from church, sat down at the piano and started to play “The Old Rugged Cross.” Then he took the gospel favorite and played it in the ...

Boogie-woogie ... just the name conjures up images of a smoky bar and a man pounding out tunes at a corner piano. It's a music that was popular in the 1930s and '40s, and Matthew Ball, aka the "Boogie ...

Piano man Ricky Nye admits there was no “grand design” when he started his Blues and Boogie Piano Summit 15 years ago. He was simply carrying out what he sees as the highest calling for those into the ...

One of the founding members of the Rolling Stones, Ian Stewart lost his place in the lineup after the band's manager determined that Stewart, with his pronounced jaw line and thick, brushed-back hair, ...

Antoine “Fats” Domino, the jovial New Orleans entertainer whose bluesy singing and boogie-woogie piano style helped launch rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s with such rollicking songs as “Blueberry Hill,” ...

Tuesday evening Erik-Jan Overbeek - known professionally as "Mr. Boogie Woogie" - brings his hard-driving, take-no-prisoners style of piano playing to the Academy Village. An Arizona Daily Star review ...

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 ...

The first thing Bob Seeley wants you to know is that he did not retire. That’s no matter what they may tell you at the place he used to work. He did, however, take two months off after breaking the ...