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Boogie Woogie A piano form (popularized in late-1920s
Chicago) that uses a steady eight beat
ostinato in the left hand.
Today, the expression 'Boogie' has a sexual
connotation.
Ex: Hey, Baby, let's "boogie on down."


The late great jazz pianist, Vince Guaraldi, of "Peanuts" fame, but also a wonderful bebopper of giant proportions, having played with Nat Adderley and a small host of other greats, often described himself as, "Just a boogie-woogie pianist".

That was not exactly a bad description.

Analyzing what has become perhaps his most famous composition, "Linus and Lucy" -- we find that the LH in Ab is indeed nothing more than a slightly different take on the "boogie woogie bass" of the boogie pianists.


--Mac
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