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women blues piano players - jazzboCR - 22-08-2014
For my money, the list starts with Marcia Ball. When she starts pumpin' that left leg, my pantaloons start fluttering and my cheeks start moving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhpWSjodNCY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuZsKmw30HA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2yxnEIUrio and a serious number: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcASVdqUeOo She plays well with others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL-ZCxbKo0s << from a marvy CD/DVD package
The late Ann Rabson (part of Saffire--the Uppity Blues Women q.v.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXvvQofdFAg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvKzok-rADE << with Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0txuiJ3zLE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA7n-7saQWU
Deanna Bogart Sure hopes she has someone keeping the hearth fire lit (if I wasn't 20 years past the sell-by date, I'd volunteer...)...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kKqD0ArmI0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3JmWvnRZBM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx9Mx4C2yIE << ditto, from the same gig Ms. Bogart also plays a hellified sax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7VpIwIdy-Q and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMSfvXbut64 << try to tear your eyes or ears away from this perf. I dare you...
women blues piano players - R_burke - 22-08-2014
Not straight ahead blues but i would add Sue Palmer, Wendy DeWitt and Donna Oxford to the list
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pNg7Iw5fww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZKq5w_dCvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTnk8uglYPs
women blues piano players - jazzboCR - 22-08-2014
Great share, R_burke. If you like blues, you're gonna like boogie-woogie...only a hairsbreadth of difference, if any. My take anyway. How about all 3 women plus a fourth (Linda Otey) on 1 piano? Amazing perf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3mK7C4Mbec Ms Otey is normally a jazz pianist/ singer, just having fun with friends.
About Ms. DeWitt: I'm reminded of Ginger Rogers' comment when Fred Astaire was complimented on their dancing together: "Yes he's amazing but don't forget, I did everything he did--but backwards and in high-heels."
women blues piano players - jazzboCR - 22-08-2014
So as to not step on R_burke's lines, I've made this post on some other Boogie-Woogie queens.
Elena Tourbina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjKQUR-6G6o
Stephanie Trick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvTYiXChgqs << not just boogie-woogie--she channels Fats Waller pretty good too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3NHduof_vE
Aricia Evlard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PI0BNSVGXw << ...and a dance lesson too
Caroline Dahl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1oMhcCujms
BONUS: full concert by Ms. Oxford featuring Leland Sklar on bass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saqrfn4rtaw
I'm so pumped I'm gonna get to that ironing and vacuuming I've been putting off...