Tall, regal looking and fashion-model thin with a striking shock of white hair that brings an aura of sage maturity to her otherwise youthful elegance, Marcia Ball might not look like a two-fisted, ...

It’s been six years since boogie-woogie pianist Erwin Helfer has been able to grace the Chicago Blues Festival with his music, and that’s too long. At age 82, Helfer may be Chicago’s last living ...

“Long tall Marcia Ball” is the hottest blues, rhythm and blues, and funky piano player this side of Professor Longhair himself. A Louisiana native who’s now based in Austin, Texas, blues singer and ...

Veteran English blues performer John Mayall's "reminiscences" here aren't "of great blues figures" but of encounters, often via recordings, of the very best barrelhouse, blues and boogie woogie piano ...

Erwin Helfer, a Chicago boogie woogie innovator and master, has been forging his own piano music legacy. Born in 1936, Erwin has been playing and performing for over forty years. The sounds and ...

Pinetop Perkins, the Mississippi Delta-born piano player who started a solo career in his 70s after performing with fellow bluesman Muddy Waters for more than a decade, has died. He was 97. He died ...

Pinetop Perkins, 97, a blues pianist who worked with such legendary musicians as Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson and B.B. King, died March 21 at his home in Austin from cardiac arrest. Last month, ...

The Bloomington Blues & Boogie Woogie Piano Festival returns this year after a hiatus due to post-pandemic financial challenges. Founded by local musician Craig Brenner, the festival aims to introduce ...

The Bloomington Blues and Boogie Woogie Piano Festival will return for its seventh year this Sunday, including 10 artists performing blues, boogie woogie and other related music styles. The festival ...