Tuesday 5th January 2010, at 23h.
Blues · Boogie Woogie
18 euros
STEVE "BIG MAN" CLAYTON (GB/ALE) PIANO & VOCALS
JOERG HEGEMANN (ALE) PIANO
LLUÍS COLOMA (ESP) PIANO
MANOLO GERMÁN (ESP) BASS
MARC RUIZ (ESP) DRUMS
Wednesday 6th January , at 19:30h.
Blues · Boogie Woogie
18 euros
STEVE "BIG MAN" CLAYTON (GB/ALE) PIANO & VOCALS
JULIAN PHILLIPS (GB) PIANO & VOCALS
LLUÍS COLOMA (ESP) PIANO
MANOLO GERMÁN (ESP) BASS
MARC RUIZ (ESP) DRUMS
Nova Jazz Cava de Terrassa
Ptge. Tete Montoliu s/n – 08221 – TERRASSA (SPAIN)Telf. (+34) 93 780 50 12
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INFORMATION & BOOKING
Oficina Jazz Terrassa, c/ Teatre, 2. Tel.: (+34) 93 786 27 09,Office hours: from 9:30 to 13:30 & from 17 to 19h.
E-mail: info@jazzterrassa.org
TICKET SALES
Nova Jazz Cava, pge. Tete Montoliu, s/n.Saturday 5th January, from 21h.
Sunday 6th January, from 18h.
To the 6th edition of Blues & Boogie Reunion , annual Blues & Boogie Woogie piano meeting in Spain.
PREVIOUS EDITIONS
A show full of rhythm and joy. 2 pianos on stage, 4 pianists playing the hottest style on the 88 keys, Boogie Woogie. Great Blues & Boogie Woogie piano players as Steve “Big Man” Clayton (UK/GER), Joerg Hegemann (GER), Julian Phillips (UK) and Lluís Coloma will share the stage during two evenings playing each solo sets and some piano duets. Two magic concerts, the best gift for Christhmas.
STEVE "BIG MAN" CLAYTON (GB/ALE) Piano & Vocals
Steve "Big Man" Clayton, born in Birmingham (GB), is a highly gifted piano player and singer.
After finishing his classical studies, he decided to dedicate his musical life to his love of blues piano, and has remained true to himself and blues piano for over 30 years. His own compositions demonstrate his love for this music; a mixture of blues, boogie woogie, gospel and rock and roll, are all available to hear on 6 CD´s.
He presents himself on the stage totally relaxed and with great humour, although from the very first note, the audience realise that Steve „Big Man“ Clayton is a very serious artist, an artist of the highest calibre, an artist that is very much keeping the art of blues piano alive and kicking
JOERG HEGEMANN (ALE) Piano
Joerg Hegemann from Witten, Germany, has been on tour for more than 21 years. Born in 1966, he heard Boogie Woogie at first in a radio show in the early eighties and he was immediately enthusiastic of this kind of music. In 1983 he saw a concert of the great Axel Zwingenberger, who inspired Joerg to start playing Boogie Woogie Piano himself. Without any classical piano education he studied this dynamic kind of music in a self-educated way.
He loves the classical Boogie Woogie style of the “Big Three”, the Boogie heroes Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson, who have made Boogie Woogie world famous up to now. Specially the very melodic and deep bluesy felt way of Albert Ammons is the most important influence for Joerg Hegemanns musically development.
Meanwhile Joerg Hegemann toured almost than a dozen European countries, from Norway to Swiss, from France to Hungary. He has played in radio and TV shows and played countless concerts in Jazzclubs and at Jazzfestivals. He has recorded five CD’s. For the 100th birthday anniversary of his musically idol, he produced the CD A Tribute To Albert Ammons with support by Lila Ammons, the granddaughter of the Boogie king. Playing Boogie Woogie in the authentic way, Joerg is well-known for his powerful and melodic style and on every stage he convinces the audience with his music.
JULIAN PHILLIPS (GB) Piano & Vocals
Julian Phillips started playing the piano at the age of ten and soon after he was playing in front of small gatherings of people from the neighbourhood, arranged by his piano teacher. At fourteen he remembers first hearing a boogie woogie record at a friends’ house. Julian began to teach himself this infectious style of piano playing by listening to more records by the originators of boogie woogie such as Pinetop Smith, Jimmy Yancey, Clarence Loften to name a few. Like so many piano players from the era Julian also began to develop his singing style enabling him to incorporate material from other great blues artists including Big Bill Broonzy, Tampa Red and Louis Jordan.
Julian is gaining a great reputation for his wide and varied repertoire in the boogie woogie and blues genre, playing in a truly authentic way. He performs with The Stuff boogie woogie band on piano and vocals.
Julian is one of the founder organisers of the UK boogie woogie festival held at Sturminster Newton in Dorset England. He has an active solo career and duo act with bass box player Chris Davidson, appearing in festival programmes around Europe and the USA and has performing alongside many of his contemporaries including Axel Zwingenberger, Jean-Paul Amouroux, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Martijn Schok, Frank Muschalle and many others.
LLUÍS COLOMA (ESP) Piano
Born in Barcelona in 1973, Lluís Coloma is one of the most recognized and in-demand pianists in the European Blues scene. After hearing the sounds of Jerry Lee Lewis, Roosevelt Sykes and Alan Price he migrated from stuffy classical lessons to self-taught rock & roll eventually showing a remarkable ability for Blues and Boogie Woogie. Today Lluis is considered a specialist and garners accolades and awards such as “Best Catalan Musician 2003” and “Artista BluesCat 2006”. When not recording and performing Lluís gives conferences and master classes on the history of Blues and Boogie Woogie piano and is one of the few pianists in Spain able to recreate the primitive styles of the genre. He is the artistic director of the Barcelona Blues Festival, organizes the annual Blues & Boogie Reunion, the Barcelona Blues Society’s Boogie Woogie Jubilee and is a mainstay on the European blues & piano festival circuit.
From the beginning, Lluís has made a mark in Blues & Boogie Woogie penning his own compositions on the critically acclaimed releases REMEMBER (Omix Records 2002), BOOGIEOLOGY (Fresh Sound Records 2003) and LONELY AVENUE (Swing Alley 2006). In his CD, BOOGIE PORTRAITS (Swing Alley 2008), Lluís recorded duets with Blues & Boogie Woogie piano greats Carl Sonny Leyland, Barrelhouse Chuck, Mitch Woods, Bob Seeley, Mark “Mr B” Braun, Frank Muschalle and others. In 2007 Lluís played festivals in the United States alongside David Maxwell, Mitch Woods, Bruce Katz, and Axel Zwingenberger. Naturally, he tours throughout Europe and occasionally as far such as Malaysia’s Miri Jazz Festival in ’06 & ’07. Recently Lluís has recorded his first live Cd, 7 NIGHTS AT CENTRAL (Swing Alley 2009), during a week of concerts at Café Central in Madrid wrapped up by a unique atmosphere and a warm audience. In this cd Lluís’ trio sounds full of complicity and feeling after more than 8 years playing regularly around the world.
MANOLO GERMÁN (ESP) Bass
Born in Cardona in 1970. Musician since 1997. Founding member of Rockabilly band Headstones. Bassist of Rockabilly band "Gatos Locos" touring several times in Spain from 1997 to 2000. Since 1997 Manolo plays bass in "Dr Swinguez" band. In 1999 he works as a side man of Rock and Roll legend Sleepy la Beef in Albacete.
Member of Lluís Coloma Trio since 2001, Manolo has the chance to play in such emblematic spanish jazz clubs as Café Central de Madrid, Black Note Club de Valencia, La Bilbaína de Jazz Bilbao, Café España de Valladolid... and in importants festivals in France, Malaysia, Serbia and Spain. Since 2000 he is the official bassist of "La Guitarra" jazz club band in Calella de Palafrugell, property of french guitar player and singer Mano Rena. Working in this club, Manolo has the opportunity to play with great musicians and bands as: La Vella Dixieland, La Locomotora Negra, Hook Herrera, Alain Guiu, Dani Doritz, Toni Solà, Erwyn Serruton...
MARC RUIZ (ESP) Drums
Born in Sabadell in 1972. Marc is working as a professional musician since 1995. Founder of Dr. Soul & Mammy Brass, playing with the band from 1995 to 1998 in some local clubs in Catalunya. Drummer of "Midnight Rockets", Blues band with Maurici Morera (harmonica), Eloi Moya (bass) and Octavio Cortés (vocals and guitar) recording two CDs, "El sentío de la vía" and "Midnight Jump" (1995-1998).
In 1998 he starts to play with blues guitar player Álex A. and bassist Eloi Moya founding Funky and Blues band Álex A. & T.N.T, playing regularly in clubs as La Boîte de Barcelona, La Cova del Drac de Barcelona... and in some Festivals since 2003. Nowadays Marc plays with Blues and Boogie Woogie piano player Lluís Coloma, with whom he has recorded three Cds and played at International Blues and Jazz Festivals in Spain, France, Malaysia, Serbia... among others and had also the opportunity to play with great piano players as Axel Zwingenberger, Frank Muschalle, Silvan Zingg, Rob Rio...
