This a tribute to an untitled improvisational James Booker piece. You can now find The Boogie Woogie Kid fan page on Facebook!
Performance highlights from the Sky Hempy Keyboard Performance Series / Saugatuck ‘08. Now on Facebook – The Boogie Woogie Kid Fan Page!
Piano Stories – Episode One: The 1917 Aeolian There’s an interesting trait that all piano technicians who rebuild pianos share. For reasons no one has ever been able to quite explain we all tend to accumulate pianos. It’s almost like they were dust bunnies in the way they somehow manage to pile up. Most of these pianos are well past any form of the word functional. In other words, most of them are junk. A piano rebuilding technician always knows when one of his rebuilding colleagues is in the process of moving their shop, because sooner or later a phone call is made asking if you would like a free piano or two. About four years ago, I received one of those phone calls from a friend and fellow rebuilder by the name of Roy. He asked me if I would like the “Aeolian”. I was familiar with the Aeolian he spoke of; it was a 1917 Baby Grand that was in horrible condition. The piano started life as a player piano, but over the decades since it was built it had long since lost its player unit, along with all of its finish ( and much of the wood beneath it ). Its strings were rusty, its hammers were shot; in fact, every moving part on it was shot. The keytops ,on the other hand, were in perfect conditon; I’ll never figure out how they survived. ” Why would you want this train wreck of a piano ?” you might ask. Well, the story of the Aeolian Piano Company is one of the great rags-to-riches-to-rags stories in American piano lore. In 1913, the Aeolian Company introduced its Duo-Art …
www.coreybarksdale.com New Orleans (pronounced nuːˈɔlənz/ locally and often pronounced /nuːɔrˈliːnz/ in most other US dialects French: La Nouvelle-Orléans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state. New Orleans is located in southeastern Louisiana, straddling the Mississippi River. It is coextensive with Orleans Parish, meaning that the boundaries of the city and the parish are the same. It is bounded by the parishes of St. Tammany (north), St. Bernard (east), Plaquemines (south), and Jefferson (south and west). Lake Pontchartrain, part of which is included in the city limits, lies to the north, and Lake Borgne lies to the east. The city is named after Philippe II, Duc d’Orléans, Regent of France, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is well known for its multicultural and multilingual heritage, cuisine, architecture, music (particularly as the birthplace of jazz), and its annual Mardi Gras and other celebrations and festivals. The city is often referred to as the “most unique” city in America La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded May 7, 1718, by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of France at the time; his title came from the French city of Orléans. The …
The music video for The Rescue Blues off of Ryan’s 2001 album Gold.
Jazz and Blues music is listened to by music lovers all over the world. Including Vernon. BC where on Aug 8 – 9 the RAREARTH Jazz and Blues Fest is taking place with 5 time Grammy Winner BUDDY GUY being the headliner. Music by Kath and the Tomkats. For what’s happening in the Okanagan and Rareath Info: www.andyraeber.com www.kathandthetomkats.com
The Blues Brothers performing Jail House Rock live on New Years Eve 1978 at Winterland in San Francisco, CA. Opened for the Grateful Dead. Winterland’s final concert before closing down. Air Date: 12/31/1978 *update* 100000 views as of 07/09/09!
Wacky Tobacky, the first song of the album “Kick me hard” (Rounder Records 3030, 1979) from the NRBQ. Sorry for the bad video quality but the sound is quite good…
Outstanding performances abound in this musical variety show filmed at Harlem’s Apollo Theatre, New York City in 1954. It features a cast of popular African-American performers: Willie Bryant, Freddie Robinson, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Faye Adams, Bill Bailey, Herb Jeffries, Amos Milburn, Sarah Vaughan, Nipsey Russell, Big Joe Turner, Martha Davis, Little Buck, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Mantan Moreland, Cab Calloway and Ruth Brown. Presented in this clip is one song by Sarah Vaughan and Ct. Basie doing two numbers. You can download the entire movie at the link below. Or watch the individual performances here at MindsiMedia. www.archive.org
Nat Cole, Delta Rhythm Boys & the Larks / Rhythm and Blues Revue Vocal greats are Nat King Cole, The Delta Rhythm Boys & The Larks are featured in our fourth clip from the 1954 film Rhythm & Blues Revue. Outstanding performances abound in this musical variety show filmed at Harlems Apollo Theatre, New York City.It features a cast of popular African-American performers: Willie Bryant, Freddie Robinson, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Faye Adams, Bill Bailey, Herb Jeffries, Amos Milburn, Sarah Vaughan, Nipsey Russell, Big Joe Turner, Martha Davis, Little Buck, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Mantan Moreland, Cab Calloway and Ruth Brown. You can download the entire movie at the below. Or watch the individual performances here at mindsimedia. www.archive.org Public Domain
