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 ...

The hardest working Bums you’ll ever see? Every time they hit the stage, Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums deliver energetic, exhilarating jump-blues, boogie, vintage jazz and swing. The rousing pianist ...

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 ...

The Bloomington Blues and Boogie Woogie Piano Festival will return for its seventh year this Sunday, including 10 artists ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bloomington musician Mark Wiedenmayer said, "H-T survey results voted Craig Brenner best pianist in Bloomington in 1987." Brenner pours his keyboard skills into something else, too — the Bloomington ...

Craig Brenner put his grant money to use and is looking for music students to join his project. Thanks to his Indiana Arts Commission grant, Brenner has composed an album “Passages” and is ...

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 ...