MOUNT DORA — When he was a young child, Tommy Johnson came home from church, sat down at the piano and started to play “The Old Rugged Cross.” Then he took the gospel favorite and played it in the ...

Antoine "Fats" Domino, the jovial New Orleans entertainer whose bluesy singing and boogie-woogie piano style helped launch rock 'n' roll in the 1950s with such rollicking songs as "Blueberry Hill," ...

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 ...

Tuesday evening Erik-Jan Overbeek - known professionally as "Mr. Boogie Woogie" - brings his hard-driving, take-no-prisoners style of piano playing to the Academy Village. An Arizona Daily Star review ...

Boogie woogie is alive and well. It’s in good hands, those of the East Bay’s Wendy DeWitt. Known as “Queen of Boogie-Woogie Piano,” DeWitt headlines Redwood City’s Club Fox Blues Jam Wednesday evening ...

NEW YORK — Huey “Piano” Smith, one of the last survivors of an extraordinary scene of musicians and songwriters who helped make New Orleans a fundamental influence on rock ‘n’ roll with such party ...

Pinetop Perkins, 97, a blues pianist who worked with such legendary musicians as Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson and B.B. King, died March 21 at his home in Austin from cardiac arrest. Last month, ...

The Ezra Charles Band was playing tighter than ever in its decades-spanning history when its leader decided to pull the plug. Charles - a remarkable pianist from Beaumont - received a lifetime ...

Antoine “Fats” Domino, the jovial New Orleans entertainer whose bluesy singing and boogie-woogie piano style helped launch rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s with such rollicking songs as “Blueberry Hill,” ...