All About Boogie Woogie

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Newest Review: ... Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis. Jimmy, Pete, Meade and Albert would often play together, driving their audiences wild with ... more

... some of the most lively, invigorating and uptempo - yet complex - music there has ever been. Pete Johnson moved down to Kansas City in the 1930s, and there he met Big Joe Turner. The two men became great friends, and together played live boogie woogie music at various all-night and somewhat seedy venues in the city which sold bootleg alcohol during prohibition times. Pete backed Big Joe's blues singing on piano, and it really was all down to those two who by accident rather than design, created the stepping stone...more

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All About Boogie Woogie: Born with boogie in my brain (2265 words)
by - written on 09/03/09 (Very useful, 402 readings)
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Boogie Woogie is essentially solo eight beats to the bar piano music, whereby the player pounds out a steady rhythm on the lower end of the keyboard with the left hand, and plays a lively tune with his or her right hand further up the scale. That sounds so simple, but despite boogie woogie being very easy to listen to and tuneful, the synchronisation between the two hands at work on the piano keyboard requires great skill, and the right hand can play some very complex (often improvised) tunes. There seems to be some dispute about the true roots of boogie woogie music. Some people believe that it began as early as the 1880s, but the larger body of opinion is ... Read the complete review

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