Think of the legendary rock and roll piano players of the rock n’ roll era — Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, even Liberace. Which would you pick to ...

Fusing infectious grooves with comic lyrics, Huey “Piano” Smith created late 1950s rock ’n’ roll classics with New Orleans flair. The songwriter-pianist’s national hits “Rocking Pneumonia and the ...

With songs like “Don’t You Just Know It,” “Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” and “Sea Cruise,” he put a firm backbeat behind joyful nonsense. By Jon Pareles Huey “Piano” Smith, whose ...

The history of rock and roll is filled with so many incredible songs from fantastic artists from all over the world. It is nearly an impossible task to pick just one that is the epitome of the genre.

Precious few bands can fill a stadium 52 years into their career — let alone play to an audience heavily populated by parents and their children, both generations sporting red devil horn headbands and ...