Thursday 5th January 2023, at 22h
Blues - Boogie Woogie
Price: Web and venue 25€ [Buy]
MARK "Mr B" BRAUN (USA) PIANO & VOCALS
ANKE ANGEL (HOL) PIANO & VOCALS
LLUÍS COLOMA (SP) PIANO
MANOLO GERMÁN (SP) BASS
ARNAU JULIÀ (SP) DRUMS
Friday 6th January 2023, at 22h
Blues - Boogie Woogie
Price: Web 25€ and venue [Buy]
MARK "Mr B" BRAUN (USA) PIANO & VOCALS
ANKE ANGEL (HOL) PIANO & VOCALS
LLUíS COLOMA (SP) PIANO
MANOLO GERMÁN (SP) BASS
ARNAU JULIÀ (SP) DRUMS
Nova Jazz Cava de Terrassa
Ptge. Tete Montoliu s/n 08221 TERRASSA (SPAIN)Telf. (+34) 93 780 50 12
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Oficina Jazz Terrassac/ Sant Pere 46, 1.
Telf.: (+34) 93 786 27 09
Office hours: from 16 to 20h.
E-mail: info@jazzterrassa.org
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Nova Jazz Cava, Ptge. Tete Montoliu, s/n.5th January, from 17:30h.
6th January, from 18:30h.
Online reservation recomended
To the 19th 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, 3 pianists playing the hottest style on the 88 keys, Boogie Woogie. Great Blues & Boogie Woogie piano players as Mark “Mr B” Braun (USA), Anke Angel (HOL), 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 Christmas.
MARK "Mr B" BRAUN (USA) - Piano & Vocals
Mark Lincoln Braun was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. He gravitated to Ann Arbor in the 70s where the Blind Pig was an important venue for boogie and blues piano. While absorbing the tradition and developing his own approach, Mr. B was also listening to a variety of jazz pianists, especially those with strong blues roots such as Ray Bryant and Horace Silver. This broad range of interests enables him to feel equally at home playing boogie woogie classics with authentic fervor, and expanding the tradition into lively new settings, including jazz orchestra.
Blues and boogie-woogie pianist Mark Lincoln Braun has become one of the premiere purveyors of a vanishing art. Having learned his craft first-hand from the early masters, he is a rare living link to the first generation of blues and boogie pianists. Steeped in the rich legacy of this tremendously exciting music, Mr. B learned directly from blues and boogie legends like Little Brother Montgomery, Boogie Woogie Red, and Blind John Davis.
In demand for both educational programs and concert performances, he has performed coast to coast and throughout Europe, Canada, Mexico, and South America.
Today he further promotes his art and breaks down stylistic barriers by frequently has collaborated with such world renowned mainstream jazz pianists as Monty Alexander, Henry Butler, Benny Green, Sir Charles Thompson, Ray Bryant and Junior Mance.
Mr. Bʼs many critically acclaimed recordings also demonstrate his breadth and originality.
ANKE ANGEL (NL) – Piano & Vocals
Anke Angel was born in Zeist, Holland. Her father was (and still is) a great fan of boogiewoogie. He played the piano, the guitar and the violin. Ankes mother was a classical ballet dancer. At the age of three, Anke played her first boogie, a few years later she began taking piano and singing lessons.
In her hometown there was only a classical school of music, so she taught herself how to play the boogies by listening to the records from Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Louis Armstrong, Errol Garner, Oscar Peterson… over and over. She composed her own songs and recorded them on her father’s equipment. Years later she had her first boogie and jazz-lessons, from pianist Rob Agerbeek.
When Boogie woogie legend from Texas Little Willie Littlefield heard Anke play he was exited, and encouraged her to start a professional music career. Since then Anke is asked to play everywhere in Europe, to her own great excitement.
LLUÍS COLOMA (SP) Piano
Lluís is considered the best Blues & Boogie Woogie pianist in Spain, and is also well-known throughout Europe and Asia as one of the masters of these styles. His music is unique, with a special personal touch that makes him an exceptional pianist and composer, combining traditional Blues & Jazz music with his special Spanish and Catalan flavour.
Born in Barcelona in 1973, Lluís started classical piano studies at an early age. After hearing the sounds of Jerry Lee Lewis, Roosevelt Sykes and Alan Price he migrated from classical lessons to self-taught Rock & Roll, eventually showing a remarkable ability for Blues and Boogie Woogie piano. Lluís Coloma is now one of the most recognized and in demand pianists in the world Blues and Boogie Woogie piano scene.
Lluís has received accolades and music awards such as “Best Catalan Musician 2003” and “Artista BluesCat 2006”. He often appears at Blues & Boogie Woogie festivals in Europe and Asia, where he stands out for his virtuosity and originality, and his performances are often received with standing ovations. As a composer and pianist, he continues playing all over Spain at renowned music festivals and clubs such as Café Central in Madrid, San Javier Jazz Festival, Vijazz Penedès, Festival de Jazz de Barcelona. Festival de Jazz de Madrid. Jamboree in Barcelona, Cerdanyola Blues Festival, among others, as well as in countries including USA, France, England, Malaysia, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Serbia, Hungary and Malaysia.
Lluís is also promoting Boogie Woogie concerts since 2004 in Spain, as Campi qui Boogie! International Boogie Woogie Festival in Barcelona www.boogiewoogie.es, and the Blues & Boogie Reunion www.bluesboogiespain.com
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...
ARNAU JULIÀ (ESP) Batería
Arnau Julià (Barcelona, 1991) began his music studies in the Municipal School of Music of Sant Andreu where it is part of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, under the direction and tutelage of Joan Chamorro. With the Sant Andreu Jazz Band he participates in various festivals in Spain and France and has the opportunity to record his first albums with luxury guests such as Perico Sambeat, Scott Robinson and Wycliffe Gordon. He later began his studies at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya where he received classes from musicians such as David Xirgu, Jo Krause, Horacio Fumero and Joan Monné. Julià is an active musician in the jazz and blues scene of Barcelona and regularly collaborates with groups such as the Barcelona Big Blues Band, The Sick Boys and Lluís Coloma Trio among others.
