Eric-Jan Overbeek, aka Mr. Boogie Woogie, is a Dutch piano player and singer who could hang with Doctor John, Professor Longhair or any of the other real-deal boogie woogie players from New Orleans.

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. -- Mitch Woods has never shied away from a musical challenge. When he was a child and being walked to school by the superintendent of his New York City apartment building, they’d ...

Boogie-woogie is a kind of blues piano playing in which the left hand drones a set bass phrase over & over, while the right hand goes to town with whatever variations the player can think up. Its form ...

Manhattan has many a hotspot, many a white-tie joint, but few nightclubs in which a connoisseur of jazz would care to be found. Two years ago a mild-mannered little Trenton, N. J. shoe-store owner ...