Artist Info: Mitch Woods

Mitch Woods (born in Brooklyn, NYC on April 3, 1951) is an American modern day boogie-woogie, jump blues and jazz pianist and singer. Since the early 1980s he has been touring and recording with his band, Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88's. Woods calls his music, "rock-a-boogie," and with his backing band has retrospectively provided a 1940s and 1950s jump blues style.

Woods began playing classical piano at eleven, but his real initiation into blues and boogie piano had already been assured at age eight. [read more...]