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Description of Piano Blues

 
From Ragtime to barrelhouse to Boogie-Woogie to bebop, if it's blues played on a piano, it's Piano Blues. The wide Piano Blues umbrella covers everyone from legends Count Basie and Roosevelt Sykes, to Ray Charles, Dr. John, and even Gospel guru Thomas A. Dorsey.
 

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Piano Blues Key Artists

 
Albert Ammons

Ammons, along with Meade
Lux Lewis and Pete
Johnson, defined the
boogie-woogie style of the
1930s and '40s. Shortly be...

Big Joe Turner

Turner sang Boogie Woogie
and Jump-Blues. He later hit
audiences with the rock 'n'
roll classics "Shake, Rattle
and Roll."

Champion Jack Dupree

Laid-back, barrelhouse
piano player who forged a
sound that influenced many
players from Fats Domino
and Professor Longhair.

Charles Brown

Seminal Jazz Blues vocalist
and pianist Charles Brown is
best known for his 1945
self-penned staple "Drifting
Blues."

Hadda Brooks

The lovely Miss Brooks
helped define sophisticated
boogie woogie and West
Coast blues.

Katie Webster

Katie Webster's ham-fisted
blues piano style and
over-the-top persona first
came to prominence in the
'50s.

Memphis Slim

This prolific Blues
pianist/vocalist was very
productive in the 1960s
(releasing up to 5 or 6
albums in one year).

Professor Longhair

Longhair's rollicking style
and good-time late night
piano work has made his
sound integral to the music
of New Orleans. The Prof...

Ray Charles

This national treasure has
combined Gospel with the
best of secular music to
help give birth to soul, rock
and hard bop. Charles' sil...

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