boogie-woogie

His mother was an avid singer of spirituals and a next-door neighbor, Lucy Jackson, helped Jones learn to tap out boogie-woogie on the keyboard.

“It’s the bluesy rock ‘n’ roll boogie-woogie that you can dance to.

He started with a boogie-woogie piano, tossing out melodic ideas that Carey would respond to with lyrics.

Artists like Gaye and Wonder literally laid the groundwork with their works that inhabited multiple genres like R&B, blues, boogie-woogie, and up-tempo jazz.

Roger took piano lessons while growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and was soon laying down boogie-woogie numbers.