“I think the first music that I heard and really enjoyed or remember being aware of was when I was probably five years old. My parents were probably 25 and they lived with their friends, of a similar ...

The subtext is simple—a perfectly balanced left hand augmented by a bouncing, out-of-control right hand crossed with the 12-bar blues turned from 33&1/3 to 78. All of this equals boogie woogie piano.

Antoine "Fats" Domino, the jovial New Orleans entertainer whose bluesy singing and boogie-woogie piano style helped launch rock 'n' roll in the 1950s with such rollicking songs as "Blueberry Hill," ...

Twenty years ago, across the Lincoln Park street where Erwin Helfer has lived since 1968, new neighbors moved in and installed a grand piano in their front window — and rarely played it. “A lot of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The black and white keys of the piano sound beautiful when played with love, and few people truly ...