Piano blues facts for kids

Piano blues is a type of Blues music where the piano is the main musical instrument used. Boogie woogie is the best known kind of piano blues, though barrelhouse, swing, R&B, rock and roll and jazz are also important.

Notable artists of Piano blues

• Albert Ammons
• Leroy Carr
• Ray Charles
• James Crutchfield
• Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport
• Blind John Davis
• Fats Domino
• Champion Jack Dupree
• Cecil Gant
• Dr John
• Henry Gray
• Booker T. Laury
• Meade "Lux" Lewis
• Professor Longhair
• Willie Love
• Jay McShann
• Big Maceo Merriweather
• Amos Milburn
• Little Brother Montgomery
• Pinetop Perkins
• Henning Pertiet
• Buster Pickens
• Boogie Woogie Red
• Memphis Slim
• Sunnyland Slim
• Otis Spann
• Pinetop Smith
• Willie "The Lion" Smith
• Roosevelt Sykes
• Henry Townsend
• Mose Vinson
• Jimmy Yancey
• Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne
• Silvan Zingg
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Moon Mullican
• Merrill Moore
• Joe Pullum
• Piano Red
• Speckled Red
• Little Willie Littlefield
• Chuck Miller

Images for kids

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  American blues singer Ma Rainey (1886–1939), the "Mother of the Blues"

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  Musicologist John Lomax (left) shaking hands with musician "Uncle" Rich Brown in Sumterville, Alabama

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  Sheet music from "Saint Louis Blues" (1914)

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  Bessie Smith, an early blues singer, known for her powerful voice

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  John Lee Hooker

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  Blues legend B.B. King with his guitar, "Lucille"

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  Texas blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, 1983

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  Italian singer Zucchero is credited as the "Father of Italian Blues", and is among the few European blues artists who still enjoy international success.

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  Eric Clapton performing at Hyde Park, London, in June 2008

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  Duke Ellington straddled the big band and bebop genres. Ellington extensively used the blues form.

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  The music of Taj Mahal for the 1972 movie Sounder marked a revival of interest in acoustic blues.

See also

In Spanish: Blues para niños