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The Big City
are a highly successful 5 piece band based in London, playing an
exciting combination of Jump Jive, Swing,
Rhythm and Blues, Boogie Woogie and Rock and Roll!
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Reete Petite and Gone |
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I Gotta Woman |
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Hallelujah I Love Her So |
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Reete Petite & Gone
I Gotta Woman
Let the Goot Times Roll
Tuxedo Junction
Shake Rattle & Roll
T - Bone Shuffle
Hallelujah I Love Her So
Say Yeah
I'Ready
7th Son
Don't Get Around Much Anumore
Honey Dripper Boogie
Mess Around
Allright OK Your win
Great Balls of Fire
Darn Tootin
Such A Night
Bumble Boogie
Good Golly Miss Molly
Will It Go Round in Circles
Chicken Shack Boogie
Unsquare Dance
Tutti Frutti
Good Night Irene
Night Train
I Love The Life I Live
Right Track
Whining Boy Moan
Shop Around
Pink Champagne
HISTORY & INFO of Boogie' Jive, Rhythm and Blues
Boogie Woogie was developed as a highly percussive piano-bassed music in the late '20s, and was characterized by a constant repeating rhythmic figure played by the pianist's left hand freeing the right hand for melody improvisation. Sometimes called "barrelhouse" piano, it helped popularize the "walking bass' form of accompaniment, still heard in the rock piano styles of pioneers like Jerry Lee Lewis. A danceable and joyful kind of music, boogie woogie included among its prime practitioners Jimmy Yancey, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson. The latter three joined forces in the late '30s, as the Boogie Woogie Boys, enjoying a four year residency at the exclusive clubs, the Cafe Society, Uptown and Downtown in New Yourk, into the '40s. Pete Johnson was often the accompanist of Big Joe Turner, a noted blues shouter. Thanks to jazz critic John Hammond, who promoted these artists, the boogie style enjoyed a brief vogue of popularity from the mid '30s through World War II
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