@BoogieWoogie.com : Boogie woogie is the backbone of American music. Rhythm and improvisation on a piano, played over a blues form, it is the foundation of jazz and most of American popular music. It is also America’s forgotten music. Once a national craze - it was transformed in the post WWII years into modern jazz and rock and roll.

@StreetSwing.com : In 1938 The Cotton Club Revue featured Cab Calloway and the Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers. Cab sang and the Hoppers danced to the song “A Lesson In Jive” and it is said the Boogie-Woogie dance formed from this.

@Nonjohn (A.K.A. John Tennison) : : Generally, those who express the strongest hatred for Boogie Woogie typically fall into one or more of following four categories: 1 Musicians who have tried, but have not had the coordination or the stamina to play Boogie Woogie. (we let you discover 2,3 and 4)

@MOMA : Piet Mondrian. (Dutch, 1872-1944). Broadway Boogie Woogie. 1942-43. Oil on canvas, 50 x 50″ (127 x 127 cm) “Mondrian,, an adept dancer fascinated by boogie–woogie., saw the syncopated beat, irreverent approach to melody, and improvisational aesthetic of boogie–woogie as akin to his own “destruction of natural appearance; and construction through continuous opposition of pure means—dynamic rhythm.”

@Aina Nygörd / Jürgen Brudal : In Boogie Woogie however, there are no choreographies. That means that the dancers improvise their own dance spontaneously on the dance floor. You might imagine that dancers without a choreography would do random and usynchronized movements, but this is not the case.

@Phrases.org : The term boogie-woogie is first recorded in print as the title of Clarence ‘Pinetop’ Smith’s 1928 recording, Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie, which includes these lyrics: “I want all of you to know Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie. I want everybody to dance just like I say. And when I say ‘hold it there’. I want all of you … to stop. And when I say stop - don’t move. And when I say git it. I want all of you to do a boogie-woogie”

@Time : : Said Pianist Paul ponderously: “[Boogie-woogie] is a kind of modern Bach, in so far as the left hand does not play a mere accompaniment but a distinct theme that is woven in with the theme of the right hand in a definite counterpoint style, with Bach-like improvisations on the themes.”

@About.com : Playing boogie woogie piano isn’t difficult when you know a few basics. Just take a repeating bass line, add that famous 12-bar blues pattern, mix in a few chords, and you’ve got a recipe for fun and entertainment!

@Texas Escapes : Alan Lomax wrote in 1993 : “Anonymous black musicians, longing to grab a train and ride away from their troubles, incorporated the rhythms of the steam locomotive and the moan of their whistles into the new dance music they were playing in jukes and dance halls”.

@Prentiss Riddle : Long John Baldry. used to sing “Don’t you tell me n-n-n-no lies woman ’cause all you know I’ve told. Don’t sell me no alibi sister ’cause all you’ve got I’ve sold. …So don’t try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll”. to be continued… probably