boogie-woogie

• “Swing and boogie-woogie were early favorites, then bebop and rhythm and blues.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “The East German newspaper Neues Deutschland charged the United States with dumping “a mudslide of boogie-woogie” on Communist youth.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “That same year, another East German official declared that by resisting jazz, his countrymen were defending their “national cultural tradition” against both “American imperialist ideologies” and “barbarization by the boogie-woogie ‘culture.’””

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “While tending his cousin's bar, Mr. Domino listened to a steady diet of boogie-woogie piano records on the jukebox.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Rhythm of Rock 'n' Roll: 'It's All in the 1, 2, 3'

• “She had a prolific career as a composer, arranger and nimble player of blues, boogie-woogie, swing and be-bop.”

  Voice of America: Smithsonian Celebrates Jazz Appeciation Month

• “The band broke up in 1938, and Mr. Shearing went on to a solo career, winning awards for his mastery of the boogie-woogie and stride styles.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Pianist Shaped a New Jazz Sound

• “It doesn't have a happy ending, but it's got other assets, including bluegrass and an ace boogie-woogie.”

  The Guardian: Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival – review

• “On 14 June 1955 Tony Mottram, the British tennis hope of those days, chose as one of his Desert Island Discs Fats Waller's "Alligator Crawl", a thrilling boogie-woogie rumble.”

  The Guardian: Fats Waller by Michael Longley

• “Shearing won over American audiences with his own style of boogie-woogie, blues and jazz swing which later became known as "The Shearing Sound.”

  Voice of America: Jazz Great George Shearing Dies at 91

• “I think I first found it in a piano book that belonged to my sister that was sort of an anthology of blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano.”

  NPR: Vijay Iyer: Self-Taught Jazz Pianist Goes 'Solo'

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