When Bob Seeley was a young, ardent classical piano student in the 1940s, he suddenly fell head-over-heels in love with boogie-woogie, whose bumptious, bluesy beat bumped aside his teenage crushes on ...

Veteran English blues performer John Mayall's "reminiscences" here aren't "of great blues figures" but of encounters, often via recordings, of the very best barrelhouse, blues and boogie woogie piano ...