Smokin’ Billy Slater is a pianist on a mission.

His goal: to keep alive, share, and contribute to the lost art of boogie-woogie and blues piano. From low-down stomps, to raucous boogies, to soulful ballads, to New Orleans rhythm n’ blues, Slater’s one-of-a-kind repertoire tells the story of blues piano, and features songs from some of America’s most talented, but least-remembered, pianists. His high-energy, foot-stomping performances create a unique ambiance that is at once new to the ears, but strangely familiar.

Smokin’ Billy Slater is a pianist on a mission.

His goal: to keep alive, share, and contribute to the lost art of boogie-woogie and blues piano. From low-down stomps, to raucous boogies, to soulful ballads, to New Orleans rhythm n’ blues, Slater’s one-of-a-kind repertoire tells the story of blues piano, and features songs from some of America’s most talented, but least-remembered, pianists. His high-energy, foot-stomping performances create a unique ambiance that is at once new to the ears, but strangely familiar.

Blues and boogie-woogie piano player Arthur Migliazza was born in Hyattsville, Maryland in 1980.  He began taking classical piano lessons at age nine, mainly due to the prompting of some family friends who, noticing his tendency to play any piano that happened to be in reach, suggested that his mother get him started with lessons.  Frustrated with the confines of classical music, but clearly gifted at the keyboard, Arthur soon found himself under the tutelage of Judy Luis-Watson, a local blues piano player and teacher. It was at this point that Arthur’s true potential began to show. Arthur was immediately drawn to the soul in blues music and began listening to blues piano greats such as Otis Spann, Champion Jack Dupree, Jimmy Yancey, Professor Longhair, Jay McShann, Katie Webster, and many more. Their influences can be heard in his playing today.

Smokin’ Billy Slater is a pianist on a mission.

His goal: to keep alive, share, and contribute to the lost art of boogie-woogie and blues piano. From low-down stomps, to raucous boogies, to soulful ballads, to New Orleans rhythm n’ blues, Slater’s one-of-a-kind repertoire tells the story of blues piano, and features songs from some of America’s most talented, but least-remembered, pianists. His high-energy, foot-stomping performances create a unique ambiance that is at once new to the ears, but strangely familiar.

Performer, Composer, Arranger, Writer, and Producer

“Terry Waldo, ragtime pianist nonpareil and eminent scholar of the form, is musical director and arranger at the piano. Mr. Waldo is worth the price of a ticket.” THE NEW YORK TIMES

Terry Waldo is considered one of America’s premier performers and presenters of Ragtime and Early Jazz. Known for his virtuoso ragtime and stride piano playing, charming vocals, and disarming wit, he is the protégé‚ of the legendary Eubie Blake, who called Waldo “an extension of my own musical self.” Waldo has played countless New York jazz clubs, including the legendary Cookery, Hanratty’s and Michaels’s Pub where he produced and starred in nine critically acclaimed musical revues. He has appeared in concerts worldwide, including the Grand Parade du Jazz in Venice, George Wein’s JVC Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall and Jazz At Lincoln Center. He recently appeared with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall where he performed the world premier of “The Eubie Blake Concerto.”

Terry Waldo has performed and composed for many TV programs and films including, The Tonight Show, the PBS Documentary, Storyville: The Naked Dance and Ken Burns’ PBS documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Terry has produced and arranged over 40 albums, including a ragtime orchestra album for BMG and is currently working on albums for Chiaroscuro, GHB and Delmark Records. His This Is Ragtime, presently being republished by Jazz at Lincoln Center, is the definitive book on the subject and it along with his 26-part series, of the same title, produced for National Public Radio, fueled the 1970s ragtime revival. In Spring and Fall 2009 he is teaching a ragtime course for Swing University at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Terry Waldo has been the music director for a number of theatrical shows in New York City, including Mr. Jelly Lord(directed by Vernel Bagneris,) Playwrights Horizon’s production of Heliotrope Bouquet(directed by Joe Morton), and Ambassador Satch(directed by André De Shields) which later opened in London’s West End and recently played in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

His wide ranging talents were showcased in his one-man shows, Eubie and Meand The Naked Dance: The Music of Storyville as well as Shake That Thing!and Waldo’s 1927 Revue.

Performer, Composer, Arranger, Writer, and Producer

“Terry Waldo, ragtime pianist nonpareil and eminent scholar of the form, is musical director and arranger at the piano. Mr. Waldo is worth the price of a ticket.” THE NEW YORK TIMES

Terry Waldo is considered one of America’s premier performers and presenters of Ragtime and Early Jazz. Known for his virtuoso ragtime and stride piano playing, charming vocals, and disarming wit, he is the protégé‚ of the legendary Eubie Blake, who called Waldo “an extension of my own musical self.” Waldo has played countless New York jazz clubs, including the legendary Cookery, Hanratty’s and Michaels’s Pub where he produced and starred in nine critically acclaimed musical revues. He has appeared in concerts worldwide, including the Grand Parade du Jazz in Venice, George Wein’s JVC Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall and Jazz At Lincoln Center. He recently appeared with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall where he performed the world premier of “The Eubie Blake Concerto.”

Terry Waldo has performed and composed for many TV programs and films including, The Tonight Show, the PBS Documentary, Storyville: The Naked Dance and Ken Burns’ PBS documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Terry has produced and arranged over 40 albums, including a ragtime orchestra album for BMG and is currently working on albums for Chiaroscuro, GHB and Delmark Records. His This Is Ragtime, presently being republished by Jazz at Lincoln Center, is the definitive book on the subject and it along with his 26-part series, of the same title, produced for National Public Radio, fueled the 1970s ragtime revival. In Spring and Fall 2009 he is teaching a ragtime course for Swing University at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Terry Waldo has been the music director for a number of theatrical shows in New York City, including Mr. Jelly Lord(directed by Vernel Bagneris,) Playwrights Horizon’s production of Heliotrope Bouquet(directed by Joe Morton), and Ambassador Satch(directed by André De Shields) which later opened in London’s West End and recently played in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

His wide ranging talents were showcased in his one-man shows, Eubie and Meand The Naked Dance: The Music of Storyville as well as Shake That Thing!and Waldo’s 1927 Revue.

Performer, Composer, Arranger, Writer, and Producer

“Terry Waldo, ragtime pianist nonpareil and eminent scholar of the form, is musical director and arranger at the piano. Mr. Waldo is worth the price of a ticket.” THE NEW YORK TIMES

Terry Waldo is considered one of America’s premier performers and presenters of Ragtime and Early Jazz. Known for his virtuoso ragtime and stride piano playing, charming vocals, and disarming wit, he is the protégé‚ of the legendary Eubie Blake, who called Waldo “an extension of my own musical self.” Waldo has played countless New York jazz clubs, including the legendary Cookery, Hanratty’s and Michaels’s Pub where he produced and starred in nine critically acclaimed musical revues. He has appeared in concerts worldwide, including the Grand Parade du Jazz in Venice, George Wein’s JVC Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall and Jazz At Lincoln Center. He recently appeared with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall where he performed the world premier of “The Eubie Blake Concerto.”

Terry Waldo has performed and composed for many TV programs and films including, The Tonight Show, the PBS Documentary, Storyville: The Naked Dance and Ken Burns’ PBS documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Terry has produced and arranged over 40 albums, including a ragtime orchestra album for BMG and is currently working on albums for Chiaroscuro, GHB and Delmark Records. His This Is Ragtime, presently being republished by Jazz at Lincoln Center, is the definitive book on the subject and it along with his 26-part series, of the same title, produced for National Public Radio, fueled the 1970s ragtime revival. In Spring and Fall 2009 he is teaching a ragtime course for Swing University at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Terry Waldo has been the music director for a number of theatrical shows in New York City, including Mr. Jelly Lord(directed by Vernel Bagneris,) Playwrights Horizon’s production of Heliotrope Bouquet(directed by Joe Morton), and Ambassador Satch(directed by André De Shields) which later opened in London’s West End and recently played in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

His wide ranging talents were showcased in his one-man shows, Eubie and Meand The Naked Dance: The Music of Storyville as well as Shake That Thing!and Waldo’s 1927 Revue.

Performer, Composer, Arranger, Writer, and Producer

“Terry Waldo, ragtime pianist nonpareil and eminent scholar of the form, is musical director and arranger at the piano. Mr. Waldo is worth the price of a ticket.” THE NEW YORK TIMES

Terry Waldo is considered one of America’s premier performers and presenters of Ragtime and Early Jazz. Known for his virtuoso ragtime and stride piano playing, charming vocals, and disarming wit, he is the protégé‚ of the legendary Eubie Blake, who called Waldo “an extension of my own musical self.” Waldo has played countless New York jazz clubs, including the legendary Cookery, Hanratty’s and Michaels’s Pub where he produced and starred in nine critically acclaimed musical revues. He has appeared in concerts worldwide, including the Grand Parade du Jazz in Venice, George Wein’s JVC Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall and Jazz At Lincoln Center. He recently appeared with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall where he performed the world premier of “The Eubie Blake Concerto.”

Terry Waldo has performed and composed for many TV programs and films including, The Tonight Show, the PBS Documentary, Storyville: The Naked Dance and Ken Burns’ PBS documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Terry has produced and arranged over 40 albums, including a ragtime orchestra album for BMG and is currently working on albums for Chiaroscuro, GHB and Delmark Records. His This Is Ragtime, presently being republished by Jazz at Lincoln Center, is the definitive book on the subject and it along with his 26-part series, of the same title, produced for National Public Radio, fueled the 1970s ragtime revival. In Spring and Fall 2009 he is teaching a ragtime course for Swing University at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Terry Waldo has been the music director for a number of theatrical shows in New York City, including Mr. Jelly Lord(directed by Vernel Bagneris,) Playwrights Horizon’s production of Heliotrope Bouquet(directed by Joe Morton), and Ambassador Satch(directed by André De Shields) which later opened in London’s West End and recently played in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

His wide ranging talents were showcased in his one-man shows, Eubie and Meand The Naked Dance: The Music of Storyville as well as Shake That Thing!and Waldo’s 1927 Revue.