Pinetop Perkins (born Joe Willie Perkins on July 7, 1913) is an American blues musician. Perkins was born in Belzoni, Mississippi. He began his career as a guitarist, but then injured the tendons in his left arm in a fight with a choirgirl in Helena, Arkansas. Unable to play guitar, Perkins switched to the piano, and also switched from Robert Nighthawk's KFFA radio program to Sonny Boy Williamson's "King Biscuit Time".

Otis Spann was an American blues musician. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, Spann became known for his distinct piano style. Spann was Muddy Waters' pianist from 1952 to 1960 before forming his own band. In the late 1960s, he appeared on albums with Buddy Guy, Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac. Fortunately, several films of his playing are available on DVD including the Newport Folk Festival (1960), …

Memphis Slim (3 September 1915 in Memphis, Tennessee - 24 February 1988 in Paris, France) was a blues pianist and singer.

Albert "Sunnyland Slim" Luandrew, was a blues pianist born on a farm near Vance, Mississippi. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1925, where he performed with many of the popular blues musicians of the day. In 1942 he followed the great migration of southern workers to the industrial north in Chicago. At that time the electric blues was taking shape there, and through the years Sunnyland Slim played with such musicians as Muddy Waters, Robert Jr. Lockwood, and Little Walter.

Charles Brown (September 13, 1920 - January 21, 1999), born in Texas City, Texas was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced the development of blues performance during the 1940s and 1950s. He had several hit recordings, including "Drifting Blues" and "Merry Christmas Baby". In the late 1940s a rising demand for blues was driven by an increasing white teenage audience in the South which quickly spread north and west.

William Thomas Dupree, best known as Champion Jack Dupree, was an American blues pianist. His birth date is disputed, given as July 4, July 10, and July 23, in the years 1908, 1909, or 1910. He died January 21, 1992. Champion Jack Dupree was the embodiment of the New Orleans blues and boogie woogie pianist, a true barrelhouse "professor". His father was from the Belgian Congo and his mother was African American and Cherokee.

Izear Luster Turner (born November 5, 1931) is an African American musician (piano, guitar), bandleader, talent scout and record producer, best known for his work with his former wife Tina Turner. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2001 was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

James Columbus (Jay or Hootie) McShann was an American blues and swing pianist, bandleader, and singer. McShann was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and began working as a professional musician in 1931, performing around Tulsa, Oklahoma and neighboring Arkansas. He moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1936, and set up his own big band, which featured Charlie Parker (from 1937 to 1942), Bernard Anderson, Ben Webster and Walter Brown.

James Booker - Pianist, Vocalist, Recording Artist (December 17, 1939 - November 8, 1983)

Amos Milburn was an American rhythm and blues singer, and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born and died in Houston, Texas.

Edward Riley Boyd known as Eddie Boyd was a blues piano player born on Stovall's Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Muddy Waters also lived. He moved to the Beale Street district of Memphis, Tennessee in 1936 where he played piano and guitar with his group, the Dixie Rhythm Boys. Boyd followed the great migration northward to the factories of Chicago in 1941. He wrote and recorded the hit songs "Five Long Years" (1952), "24 Hours" (1953), …

"Big" Maceo Merriweather (March 31 1905 - February 23 1953) was a blues pianist and singer active in Chicago in the 1940s. Born Major Merriweather (or Merewether) in Atlanta, Georgia, he taught himself how to play piano. In the 1920s he moved to Detroit and began playing parties and clubs. In 1941, a desire to record led him to Chicago where he met and befriended Tampa Red. Red introduced him to Lester Melrose of Bluebird Records, who signed him to a recording contract.

Walter Davis (March 1, 1912 - October 22, 1963) was an African-American blues singer and pianist. Davis was born on a farm in Mississippi and ran away from home at about 13 years of age, landing in St. Louis, Missouri. During the period from the late 1920s through the early 1950s he played club dates in the South and the lower Midwest, often with guitarist Henry Townsend, and recorded prolifically. He appears to have stopped performing professionally around 1953.

Axel Zwingenberger (born May 7, 1955 in Hamburg) is a German blues and boogie-woogie pianist. He began with study of classical piano, but began playing blues by the 1970s. In 1975 he received his first recording contract. He has gone on to work with greats in the genre like Big Joe Turner, and also tours. He is also known for his photographs of steam locomotives, including some taken from within the machinery itself.

William "Willie" Lee Perryman (October 19, 1911 - July 25, 1985), who was usually known professionally as Piano Red and later in life as Dr. Feelgood, was an American blues musician, the first to hit the pop music charts. He was a self-taught pianist who played in the barrelhouse blues style. His simple, hard-pounding left hand and his percussive right hand, coupled with his cheerful shout brought him considerable success over three decades.

Henry 'Mule' Townsend (born October 27, 1909 in Shelby, Mississippi, died September 25, 2006 in Mequon, Wisconsin) was an American blues singer, guitarist and pianist. He grew up in Cairo, Illinois and later moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he started recording with some of the early blues pioneers. He first recorded in 1929 and remained active as of 2006. He was also one of the only artists known to have recorded in every decade for the last 80 years.

Sammy Price (October 6 1908-April 14 1992) was an American jazz and blues pianist and bandleader who was born in Honey Grove, Texas. Price is most noteworthy for his work with his own band on Decca Records, known as the "Texas Bluesicians" that included fellow musicians "Don Stovall" and Emmett Berry. The artist is equally notable for his decade partnership with Henry "Red" Allen. During his early career, Sammy was a singer in local venues in the Dallas area.

Roy Milton was an American R&B singer, drummer and bandleader. Milton’s grandmother was a Native American. He was born in Wynnewood, Oklahoma and grew up on a reservation before moving to Tulsa. He joined the Ernie Fields band in the late 1920s as singer and, later, drummer. Moving to Los Angeles in 1933, he formed his own band, the Solid Senders, with Camille Howard on piano, and began recording in the 1940’s. His big break came in 1946, when “R.

"Cousin Joe" Pleasant (birth name: Pleasant Joseph) (born December 20,1907 died October 2,1989) was a blues and jazz singer,(later famous for his 1940s recordings with clarinetist Sidney Bechet and saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow), who grew up in the fields of rural Louisiana.

Buddy Johnson (born Woodrow Wilson Johnson was an influential jazz and blues pianist and bandleader active from the 1930s through the 1960s. His songs were often performed by his sister Ella Johnson, most notably "Since I Fell for You" which later became a jazz standard. Born in Darlington, South Carolina, Buddy took piano lessons as a child, and classical music remained one of his passions. In 1938 he moved to New York City, …

Bobby Lounge (born Dub Brock in 1950) is an American singer-songwriter from McComb, Mississippi. Lounge began playing for house parties while attending Louisiana Tech University in northern Louisiana in the mid 1970's. In the 1980's, Lounge played a handful of shows at Ruby's Roadhouse in Mandeville, Louisiana. He stopped playing professionally for many years while he battled Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Tabby Thomas (born Ernest Joseph Thomas, January 5, 1929; also known as Rockin' Tabby Thomas) is an American blues musician from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He sings and plays the piano and guitar, and specializes in a substyle of blues indigenous to southern Louisiana called "swamp blues." Thomas is one of the best known blues musicians in Baton Rouge, and has operated his own blues club there, called Tabby's Blues Box and Heritage Hall, …

Nico Brina, born 29th of September 1969 in Biel-Bienne (Switzerland), is a Boogie Woogie, Blues and Rock'n'Roll pianist and singer. In 1984 he co-founded the rock’n’roll band “Jive Boys“. 1988 he started playing his first Blues’n’Boogie solo-performances. 1990 Brina increased his knowledge of music by visiting the Jazz School in Berne. Since 1993 he has been accompanied by a drummer and playing more than 100 Boogie Woogie-Shows a year - all over the world, …

Charles Luckeyeth Roberts, better known as Luckey Roberts was a composer and stride pianist who worked in the jazz, ragtime, and blues styles. Luckey Roberts was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was playing piano and acting professionally with traveling African American minstrel shows in his childhood. He settled in New York City about 1910 and became one of the leading pianists in Harlem, and started publishing some of his original rags.

John Cocuzzi (born 1964) is an American jazz, blues, and swing musician who specializes the vibraphone and piano, as well as drums. His primary influences on vibraphone are Lionel Hampton and Red Norvo, while his piano playing is influenced by piano greats from both the jazz and blues worlds. Cocuzzi is originally from Maryland but is best known in the Washington, DC area. He has been a member of Big Joe & the Dynaflows, …

George Washington Thomas Jr. (born 1885, Houston, Texas - died, according to differing sources, in March, 1930, Chicago, Illinois or 1936 Washington, DC) was a United States blues and jazz pianist and songwriter. Thomas was the pianist head of an important Texas blues clan which included his daughter Hociel Thomas, his siblings Beulah ‘Sippie’ Wallace and Hersal Thomas, plus Bernice Edwards, not a blood relative, but raised with the family.

"Sweet Emma" Barrett (March 25, 1897-January 28, 1983) was a New Orleans born self-taught pianist and singer who worked with the Original Tuxedo Orchestra between 1923 and 1936, first under Papa Celestin, then William Ridgely. Also active with Armand Piron, John Robichaux and Sidney Desvigne, she had become a part of her home town's musical fabric when she withdrew from the music business for a few years. In 1947, she returned and accepted a steady job at a local club, …

Victor Brox (born, 19??) is a blues musician from Manchester, England, widely believed to have been described by both Jimi Hendrix and Tina Turner as their favourite white blues singer. Brox plays a variety of instruments including horns, keyboards and guitar, as well as performing vocals. Though continuing to perform with the Victor Brox Blues Train, …

Jeanette Bazzell Turner was married to Ike Turner and began her career as the lead singer in the rock and roll band Exodus. She was a singing with the director of entertainment for the Playboy club in St. Louis, Mo. with The Joe Bozzi Revue. Then on to The Steve Marino Review a big band. For 12 years she was the lead singer succeeding Tina Turner with the rock and roll hall of fame legend Ike Turner, and the Ike Turner Revue.