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Jan 13, 2021 · This week is a classic upbeat boogie woogie. The chord progression is a G blues progression. It is a lot of fun for any instrument to play along with. Enj...
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Dec 5, 2008 · 1.03K subscribers. Subscribed. 713. 181K views 15 years ago. One of the Killer's first records, a boogie woogie made in 1952 whan he was only 17 years old. Jerry Lee Lewis first 10 songs...
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Oct 6, 2016 · 611 Bourbon St, New Orleans, LA 70130-2107. Neighborhood: French Quarter. A small and teeming network of laissez-faire living lounged out on the balmy banks of the Mighty Mississippi, the French Quarter has long been a port of call for folks in search of a good time and a great story. Perpetually inebriated Bourbon Street runs across ...
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- Jelly Roll Morton – “The Crave”
- Isidore “Tuts” Washington – “New Orleans Piano Professor Medley”
- Champion Jack Dupree – “Junker’S Blues”
- Fats Domino – “The Fat Man”
- Professor Longhair – “Tipitina” / “Every Day I Have The Blues”
- Huey “Piano” Smith – “Rockin’ Pneumonia and The Boogie Woogie Flu”
- James Booker – “That’s Life”
- Dr. John – “Fess Up”
- Henry Butler – “Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand”
- Allen Toussaint – “Workin’ in The Coalmine”
Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe — better known as Jelly Roll Morton — boasted that he created jazz. He didn’t, but the Creole (of African and French descent) pianist, composer, and bandleader is a dominant figure in the early history of the music, and the progenitor of New Orleans piano playing. He took up the instrument when he was ten years old; in 1902...
Like Jelly Roll Morton, Isidore “Tuts” Washington started playing piano when he was a child. Unlike Morton, who studied with Mamie Desdunes (a pianist who also was a well-known voodoo priest), he was self-taught. Washington was a well-established and popular figure in New Orleans during the late 1920s and 1930s, playing ragtime, blues, jazz, and bo...
All fans of New Orleans piano playing know “Tipitina”, written and recorded by Henry Roeland “Professor Longhair” Byrd. But “Fess” based his composition on “Junker Blues”, recorded in 1941 by Champion Jack Dupree, a blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer. An orphan, Dupree was placed with the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs, the same institu...
Antoine “Fats” Domino, born in New Orleans to a French-speaking family, was a hit maker from his very first recording, “The Fat Man”, in 1949. Recorded by the legendary engineer Cosimo Matassa at his J&M Studios, Domino’s debut was the first of many chart-toppers by the shy singer-pianist, reaching number two on the national R&B charts and selling ...
Henry Roeland Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair, is the Piano God of New Orleans. Yes, there are players with more sophisticated jazz chops (Allen Toussaint, Henry Butler) and greater versatility (James Booker). But for this writer — and I’m hardly alone — “Fess” was incomparable, the rollicking high priest of Mardi Gras, the gold-toothed Ki...
Huey “Piano” Smith, born in 1934, is a key figure in the early history of rock ‘n’ roll. As with so many New Orleans pianists, Professor Longhair was a major influence on the development of Smith’s style. His playing also drew on the boogie-woogie stylings of Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons; Jelly Roll Morton’s jazz innovations; and the R&B of Fats ...
Recorded live in 1977 at Tipitina’s, the New Orleans club named after Professor Longhair’s indelible tune, James Booker’s version of the Frank Sinatra hit is a gripping emotional and spiritual journey packed into 10 minutes of superb pianism and impassioned (if raw) singing. Booker, in the words of Mac Rebennack, was “the best black, gay, one-eyed ...
Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack, Jr., better known as Dr. John, has enjoyed a remarkably long, if tumultuous, career, beginning as a teenage session player in the 1950s. At first, he mainly played guitar, but after he lost part of a finger in a barroom shooting, he made the piano his main instrument. When he was in his early teens, Rebennack met Profe...
Henry Butler, at 64, is just now getting much-deserved attention from critics and audiences — especially since he relocated to New York and began playing high-profile gigs at such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center, and Joe’s Pub. Butler has formidable technique — and he’s hardly shy about displaying it — and is...
If you’ve heard New Orleans music over the years, you’ve heard Allen Toussaint. The pianist and composer wrote, arranged, produced, and played on many of the biggest hits to come out of the Crescent City. Here’s just a partial list: “Working in the Coalmine”, “Ride Your Pony”, “Fortune Teller”, “Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky”, “Southern Nights”, “...
RICKY NYE. BLUES, BOOGIE WOOGIE, AND NEW ORLEANS PIANO. Inducted into the International Boogie Woogie Hall Of Fame. Voted Blues Artist of the Year in CityBeat Magazine's 2019 CEA Awards. Voted Best Local Musician in CityBeat Magazine's "Best Of Cincinnati" 2018 Reader's Poll.
Now YOU can learn how to play New Orleans Piano like the masters! Following the international success of his first instructional book, How to Play Boogie Woogie Piano, Arthur Migliazza returns to teach a systematic approach to understanding the sounds of New Orleans Piano.
Mar 27, 2018 · From Jerry Lee Lewis's first recording session. Recorded in the summer of 1952 at Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studio in New Orleans.
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