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The first boogie-woogie hit was "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" by Pinetop Smith, recorded in 1928 and first released in 1929. Smith's record was the first boogie-woogie recording to be a commercial hit, and helped establish "boogie-woogie" as the name of the style.
The Jazz History Tree. Boogie-woogie is a style of blues music, usually played on the piano, that is closely related to jazz forms such as ragtime and stride piano. As time went on, solo boogie-woogie extended from piano to piano duo and trio, guitar, and big band. While the blues traditionally expresses a variety of emotions, boogie-woogie is ...
Boogie-woogie, primarily a piano-based style, is one of the most rhythmically intense forms of blues music. Its evolution began in the late 1800s among pianists in the rough-and-tumble city taverns and rural juke joints, and it spread to the traveling vaudeville shows. It was a feature in the barrelhouses in the logging, sawmill, turpentine ...
Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, [1] which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing music. It was also influenced by gospel, country and western ...
Oct 15, 2020 · The first known recording of a true boogie-woogie piano solo is probably Jimmy Blythe’s ‘Chicago Stomps’ in 1924, while the first hit record in the style was ‘Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie’ by Clarence ‘Pinetop’ Smith. Smith had moved to Chicago in 1928 and recorded the song in late December that year.
Aug 25, 2010 · Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/The-Smithsonians-Ambassador-of-Jazz.htmlSmithsonian's own jazz man, John Edward Hasse, gives a lesson...
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Nov 15, 2011 · Boogie-woogie was a piano style that began in the early 20th century and later became a huge fad. Rock historian Ed Ward explains how the genre re-emerged as an important precursor to rock 'n' roll.
