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Pages in category "American blues pianists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 235 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Joshua Altheimer (May 17, 1910 – November 18, 1940) [1] [2] [note 1] was an American pianist who is remembered for accompanying Big Bill Broonzy, Lonnie Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson and others on influential blues recordings made in Chicago in the 1930s.
The same year she also won "Contemporary Blues Artist of the Year-Female." She won the "Best Blues Instrumentalist-Keyboards" again in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009. The BMA for Keyboards has since been renamed the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Award and Ball has won it in 2012 and 2015.
Arthur Migliazza (born 1980), American blues and boogie woogie pianist. Moon Mullican (1909–1967), known as the "King of the Hillbilly Piano Players" during a recording career that stretched from the 1930s through the 1960s, including hits such as "Seven Nights to Rock"; considered a major influence on Jerry Lee Lewis
Buster Pickens – (June 3, 1916 – November 24, 1964) Born Edwin Pickens in Hempstead, Texas, Pickens was an early Texas blues and piano blues pianist, who accompanied Alger "Texas" Alexander and Lightnin' Hopkins. Pickens was part of the "Santa Fe Group". He was shot dead in a bar room brawl in 1964. [84] [85]
Henry Gray (January 19, 1925 – February 17, 2020) was an American blues piano player and singer born in Kenner, Louisiana. [1] He played for more than seven decades and performed with many artists, including Robert Lockwood Jr., Billy Boy Arnold, Morris Pejoe, the Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf.
Bruce Iglauer, founder of Chicago's Alligator Records, stated Perkins was "absolutely the premier blues piano player." He added, "His career spanned literally over 80 years. He was the symbol of a whole generation of musicians." [7] Perkins influenced blues musicians such as Ike Turner, who he taught how to play piano.