Boogie-Woogie is said to have developed as a musical entertainment in the saloon bars of Louisiana and Mississippi. It reached a peak in the late 1930's and early 1940's when the famous exponents (including Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson) made their own classic recordings. Those who try to develop their own boogie Piano-playing quickly discover the technical difficulties of maintaining a mobile and rhythmic left-hand figuration whilst also giving thought to what their right hand is playing. In Boogie Duets, this task is thankfully shared, as well as the opportunity to improvise.

Until recently, jazz has been an idiom largely neglected by harp players, for several reasons. First, there haven't been many players with the technical ability needed to play modern jazz, and until very recently, most people with that ability were interested exclusively in classical styles. In addition, the harp itself is not designed in a way that makes jazz easy to play. Jazz requires a smooth, legato attack, and accents in a jazz line can fall on any part of the beat. It's hard to play the harp legato becauseof constant breath shifts, and even harder to accent freely. That's why some very skilled harp players have said that they doubt that it's possible to play jazz on the harp.Richard Hunter doesn't agree. He majored in music at Harvard University before working with a variety of jazz and rock bands. He says of 'Jazz Harp':'It was meant to inspire harmonica players to reach for the same goals as their counterparts on other instruments'.Music, exercises, theory, and technique in the jazz and pop styles of Stevie Wonder, Toots Thielemans, Tom Scott, King Curtis, and others. Note-for-note solos for chromatic and marine band harmonica.

'Children will enjoy experimenting with the flexible arrangements and the material is 'cool'...If your pianists need a bit of street-cred and to vary the diet, look no further - get rockin' Sheet Music Magazine. The ultimate duet book for boogie-loving beginners. Play as a piano duet or use the free CD accompaniment tracks in place of a partner, or both! A flexible resource allowing hundreds of possible piano duet boogie-woogie arrangements. Also includes chord symbols.

Discover the magic of the Boogie-Woogie Piano style with this hilarious, tongue-in-cheek set of [popular melodies, all reworked in a funky style to really give your Piano playing a groove!

Scott Joplin's The Entertainer is one of the world's most recognisable pieces; sprightly, uplifting and playful; it is the piece that Joplin is best remembered for around the globe. This is a simple but pleasing 36 bar arrangement of the famous Rag, set for Descant or Tenor Recorder and Piano accompaniment. Grade: 2

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14 original boogie-style Piano solos for the early grades.

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A Boogie Woogie Piano solo composed for the Welsh Pianist Iwan Llewelyn Jones. The piece features the driving bass rhythms of the Boogie Woogie style, with an energetic leaping right-hand melody - great fun for the repertoire of any Piano player.

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