One look at their pin curls, painted red lips and A-line dresses in patriotic hues, and you’re instantly transported back to the 1940s. But then you hear the Blue Anchor Belles sing. Just a few notes, ...

It was a great time in the country’s history. World War II was over. The music was jazzy, brassy, upbeat and swing. And it was as if the whole nation was tuned in to the same sound. The bands were big ...

The ladies of Reveille 3 were born to keep alive the music of the 1940s, according to lead singer Marnie Ward. Based off the harmonizing, swing dance-evoking style of the Andrews Sisters, Reveille 3 ...

Rachael and Christina Brown of Erie, PA and Deborah Bates, of Lake City, PA, portray Lillian, Marjorie Rose and Evelyn Everley, respectively. (The Everley Sisters) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Old-fashioned ...

MUSIC lovers can expect some boogie-woogie with a distinctly vintage feel when close harmony group The Femmes swing into town later this month for their debut performance at the Empire. The gig is a ...

A young jazz musician is shaking things up with some very old jazz music. Michael Kaeshammer (pronounced “case-hammer”) plays boogie-woogie piano, an early blues style popular in the late 1930s and ...

Boogie-woogie is a kind of blues piano playing in which the left hand drones a set bass phrase over & over, while the right hand goes to town with whatever variations the player can think up. Its form ...

When Bob Seeley was a young, ardent classical piano student in the 1940s, he suddenly fell head-over-heels in love with boogie-woogie, whose bumptious, bluesy beat bumped aside his teenage crushes on ...