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    subgenres. Blues subgenres include country blues, Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues and West Coast blues. World...
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  • Piano Blues is a 2003 documentary film directed by Clint Eastwood as the seventh installment of the documentary film series The Blues produced by Martin...
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    piano style has been described as "instantly recognizable, combining rumba, mambo, and calypso". Music journalist Tony Russell (in his book The Blues:...
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  • Directed by Clint Eastwood, this episode is dedicated to blues music played on the piano. Eastwood, a piano player and accomplished composer, interviews such...
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  • occasionally others. The result is comparable in sound to ragtime or stride piano styles. Blues researcher Peter B. Lowry coined the term, giving co-credit to fellow...
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  • of piano blues, jazz, and southern R&B. The photo for the album cover was taken by renowned photographer Lee Friedlander. The Genius Sings the Blues was...
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  • The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd...
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  • Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Piano Blues is the soundtrack to the documentary film directed by Clint Eastwood. This is the seventh part of the critically...
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    Pinetop Perkins (category American blues guitarists)
    Perkins performed at the Chicago Blues Festival with Ike Turner. Turner credited Perkins with inspiring him to play piano. Perkins was driving his automobile...
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  • Living the Blues is the third album by Canned Heat, a double album released in late 1968. It was one of the first double albums to place well on album...
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  • The Old Piano Roll Blues may refer to: a 1950 novelty hit song by Cy Coben Piano roll blues, a figure of speech originally referring to the Coben song...
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    Four Piano Blues is a collection of pieces for piano by American composer Aaron Copland. The collection was composed between 1926 and 1948. The set of...
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  • Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player is the sixth studio album by English musician Elton John. Released in January 1973 by DJM Records, it was the...
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  • eventually extended from piano to piano duo and trio, guitar, big band, country and western music, and gospel. While standard blues traditionally expresses...
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    Piano Concerto for piano and orchestra (1926) Two Pieces for violin and piano (1926) Sentimental Melody for piano (1926) Four Piano Blues for piano (1926–48)...
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    In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of a piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums...
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    title from the word for piano, sandaya (Burmese: စန္ဒရား). The piano is a crucial instrument in Western classical music, jazz, blues, rock, folk music, and...
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    better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments, often incorporating...
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  • Junker Blues is a piano blues song first recorded in 1940 by Champion Jack Dupree. It formed the basis of several later songs including the 1949 "The Fat...
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    The Piano Roll Blues or Old Piano Roll Blues is a figure of speech designating a legal argument (or the response to that argument) made in US patent law...
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    Daryl Davis (category American blues pianists)
    was a friend of Muddy Waters and played piano in The Legendary Blues Band. Davis has also performed with blues icon B. B. King. He has played with artists...
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  • 25, 1985), usually known professionally as Piano Red and later in life as Dr. Feelgood, was an American blues musician, the first to hit the pop music charts...
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  • minor work in Dylan's oeuvre, "Black Crow Blues" is the first song he released in which he plays the piano. In fact, that – with the harmonica – is the...
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  • vocals Frank Mead – harmonica Mick Weaver – piano Andy Pyle – bass Graham Walker – drums "Still Got the Blues (For You)" – (Moore) – 6:12 Gary Moore – guitar...
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    Boogie Woogie Piano and Drums, Clef 1975: Tell Your Story, Oldie Blues OL 2805 1982: Giant of Blues and Boogie Woogie 1905–1964, Oldie Blues OL 2810 1984:...
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    Marcia Ball (category Louisiana blues musicians)
    Louisiana blues-swamp meet." The Boston Globe described her music as "an irresistible celebratory blend of rollicking, two-fisted New Orleans piano, Louisiana...
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    in Blackheath, South East London. At the age of eight, he could play the piano fluently by ear. By his early teens he was appearing regularly in many of...
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  • with blues history or prominently featuring blues music as a theme include: St. Louis Blues (1929): the only short movie with Bessie Smith Blues in the...
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    with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, his minimalist piano style, and others. Many musicians came to prominence under his direction...
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    blues that he developed in Detroit. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi hill country blues....
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