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Past
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listed here you need not be a professional but you must be a performing or recording pianist
featuring
boogie-woogie, Blues or barrelhouse styles.)
Boogie-woogie, the
origins….
- Boogie-woogie is an original African-American musical art
form. Closely related to Blues with equally obscure origins, it's first
recorded appearance can be pinpointed . . . Clarence “Pinetop”
Smith recorded his “Pinetop’s Boogie-woogie” on 29 Dec 1928. Although
this was the first recording with the phrase Boogie-woogie in the title,
Albert Ammons had recorded his “Honky Tonk Train Blues”, a Boogie-woogie
masterpiece, the previous year. It is widely believed that black pianists
were playing a form of fast-bass rhythmical dance music around Texas as
early as the 1870’s, this style becoming known as Fast
Western. By 1900
this type of music could be heard in many cities of the USA. With it’s
driving rhythms, pounding bass figures & it's use of the piano in a very
percussive manner, it is reasonable to assert that of all the threads of
African-American music, Boogie-woogie is the most African. Clarence
“Pinetop” Smith’s recording was named Boogie-woogie because it was
released as music for a new dance craze called (surprise surprise) The
Boogie-woogie, if that dance had been given a different name, for example The
Shufflebutt, then we would all now be grooving to Shufflebutt piano music
with it’s 8 to the bar left hand Shufflebutt patterns instead of
Boogie-woogie bass figures. Boogie-woogie music has
outlived the dance craze after which it was named
& several subsequent
ones including The Jive, The Lindyhop, The Jitterbug, The Hand
Jive, The Mess-around
& others which have relied heavily on music of a
Boogie-woogie nature. Boogie-woogie
remains a solo pianists’ idiom with the perpetrators gaining status by
style, improvisational ability, groove, phrasing
& attack. Boogie-woogie
fans & those new to the genre will find here every flavour
& style
presented by past & present masters of the Art Of Improvisational,
Syncopational, Two-fisted, Barrelhouse, Blues & Boogie-woogie Piano.
IN
MEMORIAM
- Albert Ammons
- Alonzo
Yancey
- Arizona
Dranes
- Arthur
"Montana" Taylor
- "Barrelhouse"
Buck McFarland
- Black Bob
- Blind
John Davis
- Bob
Zurke
- Champion Jack Dupree
- Charles Cow Cow Davenport
- Charlie
Bozo Nickerson
- Charlie Spand
- Clarence Pinetop Smith
- Cooney
Vaughn
- Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Curtis
Jones
- Eddie
Boyd
- Frankie
Newton
- Freddie
Slack
- Georgia Tom Dorsey
- Henry
"45" Scott
- Henry
Brown
- Hersal Thomas
- Herve
Duerson
-
Honey Hill
- Ian
Stewart
- Jabo Williams
- Jess Stacy
- Jim
Clarke
- Jimmy
Blythe
- Jimmy Yancey
- John
"Big Moose" Walker
- Johnny
Johnson
- Johnny
Jones
- Josh
Altheimer
- Lemuel
Fowler
- Leothus
Lee Green
- Loomis
Gibson
- Lewis Johnson
- Little Brother Montgomery
- Major
"Big Maceo" Merriwether
- Meade
"Lux" Lewis
- Memphis Slim
- Milas
Davis
- Milton Lindberg Sparks
- Moon Mullican
- Otis Spann
- Peetie
Wheatstraw
- Pete Johnson
- Piano Red
- Rob
Hoeke
- Romeo Nelson
- Roosevelt Sykes
- Roy
"Professor
Longhair" Byrd
- Sammy
Price
- Speckled Red
- Sugar
Underwood
- Sunnyland
Slim
- Sylvester
Palmer
- Tampa
Red
- Turner
Parrish
- Vanado
Anderson
- Vernon
"Boogie-woogie Red"
Harrison
- Walter
Davis
- Walter Roland
- Wesley Wallace
- Whistlin' Alex Moore
-
Wiley Pitman
-
Will
Ezell
- Willie Anderson
- Willie
Mabon
- Winifred
Atwell
- ___________________
STILL
KICKING
- Adam
"Lux" Hembrough
- Al Copley
- Al
Kilvington
- Al
Trautman
- Andy
Potter
- Andy
Richardson
- Ann
Rabson
-
Annieville
- Axel
Zwingenberger
- "Barrelhouse"
Chuck Gowring
- Barry
Cuda
-
Bartek Szopiński
- Ben
Waters
- Benny
Yee
- Bob
Hall
-
Bob
"Boogie" Prescott
-
Bob
Welsh
-
Bobby Lounge
-
Bobby Page
-
"Boogie
Bertil"
- "Boogie"
Bill Roberts
-
Brian Fraser
- Brian Priestley
- Bruce
H Cutts
- Carl
"Sonny"
Leyland
- Caroline
Dahl
- Chris
Conz
- Chris
Nole
- Christian Bleiming
-
Christian
Christl
-
Christian Rannenberg
-
Christoph Rois
-
Clemens Vogler
- Colin
"Barrelhouse" Banagan
- Colin
Davey
-
Dan
Burnett
- Daniel
Di Bello
- Daniel
Smith
- Daryl
Davis
- Dave
Camp
-
David Maxwell
-
Dieter Thoma
- Diz
Watson
- Dona
Oxford
-
Don Hopkins
-
Dr Bekken
- Edwin
Kimmler
- Erik-Jan
Overbeek
-
Finn Kalsbøll
- Frank
Muschalle
-
Freddy
James
- Geraint
Watkins
- Gottfried
Boettger
- Grant
Mactavish
- Günther
Straub
-
Hank
Curci
-
Hans Knudsen
- Henning
Pertiet
- Jaap
Dekker
- Jack
Carter
- Jacques
Covo
-
James Goodwin
- Jean-Paul
Amouroux
- Jean-Pierre
Bertrand
-
Jean-Pierre Guillaume
- Jeff
Palfreyman
-
Jerry Lee Lewis
- Jesse
Deane-Freeman
- Jim
Redfarn
- John
Elstad
- John
Holtby
- John
"Left Hand" Diver
- Johnny
Parker
-
Johnny Schütten
- Jon
Sarta
- Jools
Holland
-
Jörg
Hegemann
- Julian
Joseph
- Justin
Bracken
- Kenny
"Blues Boss"
Wayne
- Kyle
Esplin
-
Liz Pennock
-
Marco Andreose
- Mark
Bell
-
Mark
Brumbach
-
Markus Brandl
- Martijn
Schock
- Martin
Schmitt
-
Mattias Nordqvist
-
Michael Fonfara
- Michael
Kaeshammer
- Michael
Pewny
-
Michał Cholewiński
- Mike
Sanchez
- Mitch
Woods
-
Neil Wilde
- Nico
Brina
- Niel
Drinkwater
- Paddy
Milner
-
Paul
Osborne
- Pete Fryer
- Pete
"Sunny" Nash
-
Philippe
LeJeune
-
Pia
Beck
- "Pinetop"
Perkins
- "Porkpie"Pete
McKay
- "Psycho"
Stuart
Preston
- Quentin
"Zillion
Fingers" Gannaway
-
Ralph Bassinger
- Ray
"Chigwell
Fats" Bartrip
-
Reidar Larsen
- Remi
Toulon
- Renaud
Patigny
- "Reverend"
Joachim Schumacher
-
Richard "Lips" Lawrence
- Richard
"Snakehips" O'Donnell
-
Richie Loidl
- Ricky
Nye
- Rob
Rio
- Rod
Marshall
-
Roy Young
- Sam Caprani
- Scott
Cushnie
-
Sid
Morris
- Silvan
Zingg
- Simon
Thompson
- Stefano
Franco
- Stefan
Ulbricht
- Steve
"Big Man" Clayton
- Steve
Dore
- Stubby
Knuckles
-
Sue
Palmer
- Terry
Butters
- Tibor
Grasser
- Tim
Cockerill
- Tim
Wheals
-
Tomas
Oster
- Tony
"Doc" Shiels
- Ulf
Sandstrom
- Vince
Weber
-
Wayne "Shakey" Dagenais
-
Wendy DeWitt
- Wim
Flohr
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