Originally posted by InAllKeys:
One of the truly all-time great Boogie-Rock pianists is Dr. John (Mac Rebenac). He has a couple of video DVDs available that actually show you (slowed down in some examples) how he accomplishes his boogie style. The series is put out by "Homespun Tapes". (Homespuntapes.com). Also, if you can get your hands on some old Jerry Lee Lewis recordings and sit down one afternoon with a CD Player on your piano, like I used to do. Chuck Berry had an amazing piano player named Johnny Johnson. He's on almost all of the old recordings. He is considered the innovator of the "boogie-rock" piano style. It would do you good to listen to these artists to get a feel for the technique before just delving into a book and simply playing note-for-note. Other great boogey'n R&R piano players to look
for would be stuff by Paul Griffin, Billy Preston, Chuck Leavell and Nicky Hopkins.
An absolutely great compilation songbook called "Jazz, Blues, Boogie & Swing For Piano" is published by Hal Leonard. The book is like 30 years old and is still published to this day. Has lots of advanced boogie and blues pieces that would be challenging for a musician at your level. As a matter of fact, there are a couple of boogie pieces by the legendary Jay McShann who I was saddend to hear died today at like 91. He continued to play piano right up to the last week of his life. [/b]