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 ...

The Ezra Charles Band was playing tighter than ever in its decades-spanning history when its leader decided to pull the plug. Charles - a remarkable pianist from Beaumont - received a lifetime ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the great monastery of El Escorial near Madrid, in the mid-1700s, a young Spanish priest named Antonio Soler used to teach music to His Most Serene Highness the Infante of Spain, Don Gabriel de ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Boogie woogie is a style of music that gained popularity in the 1920s and tends to attract an older crowd. An 18-year-old Tri-State high school student is trying to change that. It ...

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was in the front row for the opening set. The great jazz drummer Roy Haynes was in the same chair for the second set, which brought a huge smile to Charlie ...

MUSKEGON, MI - Muskegon's own Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy was posthumously honored on Saturday with the unveiling of a sculpture at a Muskegon veterans museum. The unveiling and dedication of the ...