Acoustic music takes center stage both figuratively and literally this week, culminating with the Adams Avenue Unplugged ...

Sue Palmer became a San Diego favorite in the 1980s and 1990s as a key member of the bands Tobacco Road and the world-touring Candye Kane & The Swingin’ Armadillos. But when this award-winning pianist ...

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 ...

MARSHALL, Texas (KLTV) - 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.

When Ricky Nye sits in with the Moore Brothers for a couple of upcoming gigs, they might revisit “Ride That Train,” a song that Nye and Tom Moore co-wrote for the 2016 Moore Brothers album, ...

Ezra Charles: King of Texas-Style Piano Credit: Photo by Pin Lim, courtesy of Ezra Charles This showbiz cliche has been heard so often it’s lost its relevance until times like these, but the show must ...

We listen to it. We dance to it. We love it. But we don’t know much about it. Boogie Woogie is a musical genre that has influenced the Blues, Jazz, Swing and Rock & Roll. Basically an African-American ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

It’s been six years since boogie-woogie pianist Erwin Helfer has been able to grace the Chicago Blues Festival with his music, and that’s too long. At age 82, Helfer may be Chicago’s last living ...

Manhattan has many a hotspot, many a white-tie joint, but few nightclubs in which a connoisseur of jazz would care to be found. Two years ago a mild-mannered little Trenton, N. J. shoe-store owner ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few artists straddled the contradictions of popular music like Dr John, who passed away on June 6 at the age of 77. The New ...