Fresh Air's jazz critic reviews Boogie Woogie and Blues Piano, a new box set featuring remastered recordings from music greats such as Chicago's Jimmy Yancy, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson. It also ...

Chase Garrett’s among a small crop of young pianists to move to St. Louis over the last few years, each of them digging into classic veins of American songcraft. Playing around town as a solo act and ...

The Bloomington Blues & Boogie Woogie Piano Festival returns this year after a hiatus due to post-pandemic financial challenges. Founded by local musician Craig Brenner, the festival aims to introduce ...

The Bloomington Blues and Boogie Woogie Piano Festival will return for its seventh year this Sunday, including 10 artists performing blues, boogie woogie and other related music styles. The festival ...

Meade “Lux” Lewis didn’t just record a blues—he conjured a rolling landscape of rhythm and motion. Cut in 1928, “Honky Tonk Train Blues” demanded a great deal of the pianist: relentless drive, ...

Tall, regal looking and fashion-model thin with a striking shock of white hair that brings an aura of sage maturity to her otherwise youthful elegance, Marcia Ball might not look like a two-fisted, ...

Pinetop Perkins, the Mississippi Delta-born piano player who started a solo career in his 70s after performing with fellow bluesman Muddy Waters for more than a decade, has died. He was 97. He died ...

When boogie-woogie blues singer Marcia Ball took the stage in the Blast Furnace Room at ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks on Friday, she literally danced to the seat at her keyboard, then continued to ...

A highly influential blues and boogie-woogie pianist, Pinetop Perkins spent over 10 years playing with the legendary Muddy Waters before going on to enjoy widespread acclaim as a solo act. Joe Willie ...

“Long tall Marcia Ball” is the hottest blues, rhythm and blues, and funky piano player this side of Professor Longhair himself. A Louisiana native who’s now based in Austin, Texas, blues singer and ...

Musicians Joe Bourne and Arthur Migliazza will be joined by special guest Tom Walbank from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday in the Abounding Grace Sanctuary, 2450 S. Kolb Road. The trio will provide an evening of ...