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Brendan Kavanagh (born October 1967 [2] [3]), also known as "Dr K" due to his PhD in English, is a British pianist and piano teacher of Irish descent.He specializes in playing and promoting the boogie-woogie genre, almost exclusively improvised, often combined with classical, jazz, blues, rock & roll, and traditional Irish music themes.
Huey "Piano" Smith (1934–2023), "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu", also accompanist on Frankie Ford's "Sea Cruise" Pinetop Smith (1904–1929), "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" in 1929 was the first boogie-woogie hit and popularized the name for the style; Charlie Spand (1893–after 1958)
From 2007 to 2011, Migliazza produced an annual dueling boogie woogie piano event in Tucson, called The Booginator with Eric-Jan Overbeek (aka Mr. Boogie Woogie). [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] In 2011, Migliazza teamed up with former Chuck Berry piano player Bob Baldori , to perform Baldori's original stage play about the history of Boogie Woogie music ...
Silvan Zingg has been producing his own piano festivals: "International Boogie Woogie Festival" in Lugano since 2002 and the "Piano Jazz auf zwei Flügeln" festival in Basel since 2010. In 2013 Silvan Zingg wins the 'German Pinetop Award' as Boogie Woogie Entertainer of the year.
Seeley also played piano with Art Tatum. Eubie Blake was also among Seeley's circle of friends. Seeley worked for a while as accompanist to Sippie Wallace. Seeley was an all-around pianist whose interest and repertoire span ragtime, stride, blues and boogie woogie. Seeley also participated in the so-called "Cheek to Cheek Boogie" with Mark Braun.
Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, but already developed in African-American communities since the 1870s. [1] It was eventually extended from piano to piano duo and trio, guitar, big band, country and western, and gospel.
Carl Sonny Leyland is an Anglo-American boogie woogie, blues and jazz pianist. He was born in 1965 near Southampton, England, but as a child was drawn to American music. At age 15, he discovered boogie woogie, and was inspired to make the piano his career. He came to New Orleans in 1988, and built a reputation in the clubs there for the next ...
Caroline Dahl is an American pianist and composer of boogie woogie and American roots music. She is originally from Louisville, Kentucky, where she played with the Metropolitan Blues All Stars. She has lived in San Francisco [1] for more than 35 years, where she performs solo around the Bay area and with Tom Rigney & Flambeau. [2]