How To Use Boogie-woogie In A Sentence
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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
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(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
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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
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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
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And not just R and B, but funk, blues and boogie-woogie - Turner shows his versatility and mastery at every turn.
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Some boogie-woogie piano, some Japanese pop, some Frank Sinatra.
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There was swing and jive in the dance halls, mambo in the bars, boogie-woogie piano playing in the dockside cathouses.
DESPERADOES
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Eastwood explains: ‘The first thing he showed me was how to play boogie-woogie.’
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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.
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There's as much boogie-woogie in its movements as conga and tango.
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I particularly admired his performances of J. P. Johnson's stride pieces, boogie-woogie, and of his own works for organ.
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There are reminiscences of ‘Neily’ leaping about in his playpen, jiggling his diaper to a boogie-woogie 78.
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And the latest entertainment for the regulars is the new honky-tonk / boogie-woogie piano nights with Karl Mullen on ‘as many Fridays as possible’.
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While tending his cousin's bar, Mr. Domino listened to a steady diet of boogie-woogie piano records on the jukebox.
The Rhythm of Rock 'n' Roll: 'It's All in the 1, 2, 3'
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Swing and boogie-woogie were early favorites, then bebop and rhythm and blues.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Jools Holland and his 18-piece Rhythm and Blues Orchestra will play their boogie-woogie, honed over 15 albums and two decades, on July 2.
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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.
Pianist Shaped a New Jazz Sound
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Fats invented the boogie-woogie piano style later used ubiquitously by early rock-n-rollers like Jerry Lee Lewis.
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I think it's best if I leave the old boogie-woogie to the Sugar Babes of the world, eh?
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A manic mix-up of Gallic musette, American blues, gypsy jive and gin mill boogie-woogie, their sound may not be futuristic but it will trigger that primitive urge to shake a tail feather.
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The East German newspaper Neues Deutschland charged the United States with dumping “a mudslide of boogie-woogie” on Communist youth.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Some of these have involved minutely detailed descriptions of snare drum accents and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie rhythms.
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New to audiences might be the fact that the lindy hop, along with the Charleston, cakewalk, minstrel blues and boogie-woogie, was originally called jazz.
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His earliest influences were boogie-woogie, blues and swing.
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There was swing and jive in the dance halls, mambo in the bars, boogie-woogie piano playing in the dockside cathouses.
DESPERADOES
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Here, you find everything from 12-tone to boogie-woogie, neoclassic to blues, and neo-romantic to completely abstract constructions.
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Boogie-woogie was generally confined to barrelhouses, dance halls, and houses of ill-repute.
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I mean, Paul's about as close to an original as you can get without being one, but if I really want to hear some great boogie-woogie, I'll go to the source, thanks.
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(Soundbite of music) ROBERTS: The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll states that the term boogie derives from the jazz-based boogie-woogie, a piano style that featured a hot rhythm based on eight to the bar figures played with the left hand.
Boogie-Woogie Flu Sufferers, Unite
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Then, some boogie-woogie piano comes in, and kids begin shouting, ‘Happy birthday to you!’
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Gints sits down to rattle off some boogie-woogie.
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Jump and jive with R'n'B and Boogie-Woogie, a la Jools Holland.
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Here, you find everything from 12-tone to boogie-woogie, neoclassic to blues, and neo-romantic to completely abstract constructions.
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I can't imagine him incorporating boogie-woogie or rock.
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There's as much boogie-woogie in its movements as conga and tango.
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It doesn't have a happy ending, but it's got other assets, including bluegrass and an ace boogie-woogie.
Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival – review
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Some of these have involved minutely detailed descriptions of snare drum accents and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie rhythms.
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He played some fantastic boogie-woogie piano, then fell off the piano stool and was sick on the floor.
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There are workshops on boogie-woogie piano and acoustic and electric guitar.
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He indulges in doo-wop, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie and Euro-classical paradigms.
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Yet it's fun to hear the boogie-woogie and swing music of the period, which inspires Astaire to some great double-time tap routines.
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Shearing won over American audiences with his own style of boogie-woogie, blues and jazz swing which later became known as "The Shearing Sound.
Jazz Great George Shearing Dies at 91
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There was swing and jive in the dance halls, mambo in the bars, boogie-woogie piano playing in the dockside cathouses.
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Who might indulge in a boogie-woogie quadrille at such a time is beyond me.
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He is still Jones's hero, and Holland has always loved boogie-woogie piano.
