Time: 51:27
Size: 117.8 MB
Styles: Boogie Woogie, Piano blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front
[0:50] 1. Southbound
[3:26] 2. Homerun
[4:19] 3. Rising River Boogie
[2:54] 4. Looking Forward
[2:58] 5. At Last
[4:03] 6. Changes To Be Made
[2:27] 7. Steamin' Away
[3:39] 8. Bluesprint
[3:41] 9. Travellin'
[3:17] 10. All The Way
[2:22] 11. Uphill
[4:30] 12. Brighton To Boston
[3:06] 13. In Good Hands
[2:22] 14. Common Ground
[1:44] 15. Sugar Cane
[2:52] 16. Venice Stomp
[2:49] 17. Floyd's Turn
Boogie-Woogie is more than just a strange name, it is an American Icon. Get ready for time travel! Otmar Binder, an Austrian piano player who served as accompanist for many singers and actors, holds on to memories of his favorite music from childhood - boogie-woogie - and here joins with BJ Cole and Christian Dozzler who form the Otto Binder Trio. This album is completely devoted to boogie-woogie music and it not only stirs memories on another time, it also stirs the soul.
For those who are unfamiliar with the history of boogie-woogie, the following is offered to instruct: `Boogie-woogie is a style of piano-based blues that became popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s, but originated much earlier, and was extended from piano, to three pianos at once, guitar, big band, and country and western music, and even gospel. While the blues traditionally depicts a variety of emotions, boogie-woogie is mainly associated with dancing. The lyrics of one of the earliest hits, "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie", consist entirely of instructions to dancers:
`Now, when I tell you to hold yourself, don't you move a peg. And when I tell you to get it, I want you to Boogie Woogie!'
Boogie-Woogie is characterized by a regular bass figure, in the left hand. The bass figure is transposed according to the chord changes. The earliest documented inquiries into the geographical origin of boogie-woogie occurred in the late 1930s when oral histories from the oldest living Americans of both African and European descent, revealed a broad consensus that boogie-woogie piano was first played in Texas in the early 1870s. Additional citations place the origins of boogie-woogie in the Piney Woods of northeast Texas. "The first Negroes who played what is called boogie-woogie, or house-rent music, and attracted attention in city slums where other Negroes held jam sessions, were from Texas. And all the Old-time Texans, black or white, are agreed that boogie piano players were first heard in the lumber and turpentine camps, where nobody was at home at all. The style dates from the early 1870s."
Now, history lesson complete, settle back and be dazzled by the artistry displayed by these phenomenal musicians. There are 17 tracks, variously penned by Binder, Cole and Dozzler and there isn't a weak track among them. Hearing the piano played in this manner brings a new appreciation to the technical skills this music form demands. This is a classy recording with some of history's greatest proponents of a style of music that, thanks to them, will never be forgotten. ~Grady Harp
For those who are unfamiliar with the history of boogie-woogie, the following is offered to instruct: `Boogie-woogie is a style of piano-based blues that became popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s, but originated much earlier, and was extended from piano, to three pianos at once, guitar, big band, and country and western music, and even gospel. While the blues traditionally depicts a variety of emotions, boogie-woogie is mainly associated with dancing. The lyrics of one of the earliest hits, "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie", consist entirely of instructions to dancers:
`Now, when I tell you to hold yourself, don't you move a peg. And when I tell you to get it, I want you to Boogie Woogie!'
Boogie-Woogie is characterized by a regular bass figure, in the left hand. The bass figure is transposed according to the chord changes. The earliest documented inquiries into the geographical origin of boogie-woogie occurred in the late 1930s when oral histories from the oldest living Americans of both African and European descent, revealed a broad consensus that boogie-woogie piano was first played in Texas in the early 1870s. Additional citations place the origins of boogie-woogie in the Piney Woods of northeast Texas. "The first Negroes who played what is called boogie-woogie, or house-rent music, and attracted attention in city slums where other Negroes held jam sessions, were from Texas. And all the Old-time Texans, black or white, are agreed that boogie piano players were first heard in the lumber and turpentine camps, where nobody was at home at all. The style dates from the early 1870s."
Now, history lesson complete, settle back and be dazzled by the artistry displayed by these phenomenal musicians. There are 17 tracks, variously penned by Binder, Cole and Dozzler and there isn't a weak track among them. Hearing the piano played in this manner brings a new appreciation to the technical skills this music form demands. This is a classy recording with some of history's greatest proponents of a style of music that, thanks to them, will never be forgotten. ~Grady Harp
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