Some reviews write themselves and this is one of them. The good people at Delmark have recently acquired the master tapes to Paul Affeldt's Euphonic Sound label and any amount of work that might have ...
Pinetop's Blues; G-Flat Blues; Streamline Train; Pitchin' Boogie; Mistaken Blues; Travelin' Blues; I Don't Know; Mercy Blues; Doll House Boogie; Whistlin' Blues; Deep Morgan; 22nd Street Stomp; Pickin ...
His specialty was a style called Boogie Woogie. But during the Depression, boogie woogie and the men who played it languished in obscurity until the legendary talent scout John Hammond came to Chicago ...
He was once a star, a Chicago pianist who practically epitomized the musical genre he helped perfect. But his name, Albert Ammons, and the music he championed, boogie-woogie, practically have vanished ...
It never had a huge viewing audience. But from 1988 to 1990, "Sunday Night" (renamed mid-run "Michelob Presents Night Music") was the best music show on television. Pianist Jools Holland and saxophone ...
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 ...