boogie-woogie

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• 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. Fats Waller by Michael Longley
• (Soundbite of music) Mr. MYERS: The slang boogie-woogie most likely evolved from booger rooger (ph), a phrase first coined by Texas blues Blind Lemon Jefferson. Boogie-Woogie Flu Sufferers, Unite
• 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.’” A Renegade History of the United States
• She had a prolific career as a composer, arranger and nimble player of blues, boogie-woogie, swing and be-bop. Smithsonian Celebrates Jazz Appeciation Month
• And not just R and B, but funk, blues and boogie-woogie - Turner shows his versatility and mastery at every turn.
• Some boogie-woogie piano, some Japanese pop, some Frank Sinatra.
• There was swing and jive in the dance halls, mambo in the bars, boogie-woogie piano playing in the dockside cathouses. DESPERADOES
• Eastwood explains: ‘The first thing he showed me was how to play boogie-woogie.’
• New to audiences might be the fact that the lindy hop, along with the Charleston, cakewalk, minstrel blues and boogie-woogie, was not originally called swing, but rather jazz.
• There's as much boogie-woogie in its movements as conga and tango.