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INTERNATIONAL BOOGIE WOOGIE EXPLOSION Swing Alley 2012BOB SEELEY & LLUíS COLOMA 1. SIXTH AVENUE EXPRESS (Pete Johnson) 2. SUITCASE BLUES (Hersal Thomas) 3. BUMBLE BOOGIE (Jack Fina) 4. YANCEY SPECIAL (Meade Lux Lewis) 5. BOOGIE WOOGIE DREAM (Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson) 6. TABOO (Ernesto Lecuona) 7. STRANGE CARGO (Freddie Slack) 8. THE HONEYDRIPPER (Joe Liggins) 9. CUTTIN THE BOOGIE (Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson) 10. LUX’S BOOGIE #2 (Meade Lux Lewis) 11. BLACK AND BLUE (Fats Waller) 12. THE FIVES (Hersal Thomas) 13. OLD LADY BE GOOD (George Gershwin) 14. HONKY TONK TRAIN BLUES (Meade Lux Lewis) 15. CHICAGO FLYER (Meade Lux Lewis) BONUS TRACK: YESTERDAYS (Jerome Kern) Bob Seeley (aka ‘Spider’ Seeley)– Piano (Right Channel) Lluís Coloma (aka ‘Machine Gun Fingers’ Coloma) – Piano (Left Channel) Recorded Live at Café Central on 26th, 27th & 28th August 2011, Madrid, Spain. Produced by Lluís Coloma & Bob Seeley Executive Producer: Jordi Pujol Live Sound Engineer: Pablo A. Uroz Mixing: Natxo Nogueras & Lluís Coloma Mastering: Marc Blanes Photos: Alberto Almayer & Anna Caixach Design & ilustrations: Berto Martínez Two pianos Cd recreating Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis piano duets who made popular Woogie in the 40's. A pure and honest way to discover, rediscover or remember a lively and festive music that goes directly to the heart. Lluís Coloma and Bob Seeley have a great friendship started in 2006, based on mutual respect and admiration. They have a great complicity on stage: both share a big passion for this music and a huge dose of energy and virtuosity on the piano. Their performances are an explosion of vitality with an audience thrown into the devotion, the generosity and the profound understanding of this two amazing musicians. A repertoire based on Boogie Woogie piano classics where the looks to tradition and future of both pianists join and provide mutual feedback giving place to a performance full of power, originality and elegance. With the exceptional power of bass lines performed by the left hands of both piano players, essential aspect of this style, Bob and Lluís create an hypnotic athmosphere able to take the audience into enthralling trips. A duel of giants where tradition and modernity complement each other, along with vibrating rhythms and a playing full of passion. ¡This Cd is a real party with two of the best Blues and Boogie Woogie pianists of the world! ======= "Boogie woogie has sometimes been described as limited and repetitive. Not so this set though! It had me hooked right from reading the sleeve notes, a wonderful, detailed interview with Detroit pianist Bob Seeley, who met Meade Lux Lewis (one of the original “Boogie Woogie Trio”) back in the 40s, and who left his mark on the young man – as the four Lewis tracks here testify. The younger Spanish blues and boogie ace Lluís Coloma has come to my attention many times over the last few years and I can confirm that he is one excellent musician – so put Coloma and Seeley together for a four-handed boogie fest and the expected fireworks sure do happen on this live set recorded in Madrid in 2011. The basses roll like thunder, but these guys can also slow it down and think outside the box (try ‘Taboo’).
Bob Seeley describes boogie-woogie as “nothing but happy blues” – and that’s just how I felt after listening to this. If you’ve ever been unsure about boogie, buy this CD. Recommended? You bet!" Norman Darwen. Blues Matters Magazine. December 2012 ""Best of the Year [...] Definitely worth mentioning though are Swing Alley’s CD by veteran pianist Bob Seeley and younger Spanish boogie ace Lluís Coloma, “International Boogie Woogie Explosion". Norman Darwen. www. bluesinthenorthwest.com. December 2012 "Lluís Coloma can be satisfied about what he has got so far in his professional career. Despite his youth, Coloma can feel proud of having played and recorded with great names of contemporary blues and boogie-woogie, but also with some legendary names, as he has done on this cd. In this new album he shares piano with the great Bob Seeley, one of the last references of the most traditional orthodox boogie-woogie, who lived the golden age of this musical genre and personally knew most of the pioneers. Despite he is already eighty years old, Bob is still actively working with the vitality of a fifty years man. It becomes evident in this magnificent exercise of two pianos boogie-woogie, and more than sixty-six minutes of intense repertoire, that includes compositions by some of all time greatest performers like Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, Freddie Slack, Fats Waller or Joe Liggins among others. A cool vital album performed by two great musicians who represent the past and future of boogie-woogie. Lluís, you can be proud, this is another dream you have reached. GREAT.” Vicente Zúmel. Radio Pica “La Hora del Blues”. November 2012 |