Colleen Haining sits down at her piano and fleshes out a nice hip-shakin’riff on the black and white keys. The notes whoop and holler, bringing to mind the indelible swing of the greats: Jerry Lee ...

Joe Perry has been gracing the world’s biggest stages for over 50 years now, initially, of course, with Aerosmith, then later on with the Joe Perry Project and the Hollywood Vampires. Of course, each ...

Piano man Ricky Nye admits there was no “grand design” when he started his Blues and Boogie Piano Summit 15 years ago. He was simply carrying out what he sees as the highest calling for those into the ...

CD compilations of boogie woogie piano abound, particularly on cheap import CD labels, but this domestic bargain is a strikingly attractive sampler. Drawing from Delmark's half-century old blues ...

It’s hard not to envision Chris Martin and his piano when thinking of Coldplay. Though the group broke out with a non-piano song, “Yellow,” Martin’s piano riffs became as identifiable as his vocal ...

Since adding Bill Payne of Little Feat fame on keyboards, Colorado’s Leftover Salmon has seemed rejuvenated. The band just released a new album, “High Country,” and celebrated with two shows at the ...

Every year on the third weekend in April, locals in Waverly, Alabama, a tiny rural town about sixty miles from Montgomery, get together to celebrate the day that State Highway 280 bypassed the town.

The subtext is simple—a perfectly balanced left hand augmented by a bouncing, out-of-control right hand crossed with the 12-bar blues turned from 33&1/3 to 78. All of this equals boogie woogie piano.