The American Music Research Foundation. The AMRF is an outgrowth of the The Masters-of-Boogie-Woogie Documentary Project. Producers of the annual Motor City Boogie Woogie Festival.
BoogieWoogie.com. Dedicated to documenting the origins, subsequent history and ongoing development of boogie woogie. It will also be a resource for all things boogie—the music, the art, the biographies of players, living and dead, and other events promoting the art form.
Craig Brenner. Boogie woogie, jazz, blues, stride, New Orleans, and barrelhouse pianist from Indiana.
Nico Brina. Boogie Woogie, blues and rock'n roll piano player/singer from Switzerland. Guinness world record holder, 1996 to 2001, as the fastest boogie woogie pianist.
Jeannie Cheatham. Blues and boogie singer and pianist who, at the age of 79, published her autobiography Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On, documenting her experience as a black, female musiciain from the 30's through the 90's.
Lluís Coloma. Blues and boogie woogie piano player from Barcelona, Spain. Leading boogie woogie promoter in Spain.
Caroline Dahl. Tasty boogie-woogie, rhythm & blues, rock, & country swing piano and accordion.
Wendy DeWitt. California based blues and boogie woogie performer and recording artist. Organizer of Queens of Boogie Woogie, boogie woogie concerts featuring woman performers and community outreach.
David Drazin. Chicago based jazz, blues and boogie woogie player, specializing in improvisations for silent movies and ballet classes.
Henri Herbert. British rock and roll, blues and boogie pianist.
International Boogie Woogie Festival Holland. Foundation dedicated to the promotion of Boogie Woogie in Holland. Organizers of the annual event featuring the best boogie woogie piano players from around the world.
Jazz Flute Project. The Jazz Flute Project is led by Frank Poloney (coauthor of Learn Boogie Woogie Piano), and plays swinging jazz standards, bebop, soulful ballads, and bossa nova.
Michael Kaeshammer. Candian classical piano prodigy turned prolific boogie woogie performer.
Joe Krown. New Orleans boogie, blues and ragtime player and longtime pianist for Clarence Gatemouth Brown.
Carl Sonny Leyland. One of the top handful of boogie woogie players today.
David Maxwell. Blues and boogie woogie piano performer and recording artist. Friend and student of the late, great Otis Spann and longtime pianist for the James Cotton band.
Ricky Nye. Cincinatti-based boogie woogie, blues keyboard recording artist. Producer of Cincinatti's annual Blues & Boogie Piano Summit.
Renaud Patigny. Belgian boogie woogie performer and recording artist. Disk jockey for monthly boogie woogie radio show, and organizer of the Brussels International Boogie Woogie Festival.
Eeco Rijken Rapp. Young boogie woogie pianist from the Netherlands. Plays a lot of authentic boogie woogie classics from Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Jimmy Yancey, etc.
Jon Sarta. Boogie player and proprieter of MLJ Music: "Creating positive music to make this world a better place".
Martijn Schok. Dutch performer and recording artist with 4 solo CDs and two Duets CDs with his friend Silvan Zingg.
Butch Thompson . Jazz pianist & clarinetist, well known for his long association with public radio's A Prairie Home Companion.
Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne. Blues and boogie pianist and singer in the tradition of Fats Domino, Roosevelt Sykes, Professor Longhair and Pete Johnson.
Ben Waters. British boogie, jump jive and rock&roll piano performer.
Vince Weber. One of the earliest European proponents of boogie woogie piano. He performed, along with Axel Zwingenberger and others, at the world's first boogie woogie/blues piano festival, which took place in Cologne Germany.
Silvan Zingg. Swiss boogie woogie performer and recording artist with concert videos on his website. He is the producer of the Coop Boogie Woogie Festival in South Switzerland.
Axel Zwingenberger. Axel is perhaps the single most important boogie woogie practitioner today. He has been promoting and performing the style for decades and is largely responsible for the current European boogie woogie revival. Every recent book on boogie woogie has his fingerprints all over it including A Left Hand Like God, Boogie Woogie Stomp, and Learn Boogie Woogie Piano. He has also written the liner notes for some of the most important boogie woogie CD's.
