Boggie in the Afternoon
Posted By Scott on November 23, 2010
“Boggie-Woggie in the Afternoon” was the title of the Ann Arbor Kerrytown Concert House event the wife and I attended last Sunday. Three fine boogie-woogie piano players did there thing over an hour and a half to a packed sold out house. Detriot area musicians Matthew Ball (aka the boogie woogie kid) played first followed by veteran player Bob Seeley and last was Spanish guest Luis Coloma. All three kicked out the jams on a big grand piano.
We had seats in row three close up and really enjoyed watching the guys play. On many songs their left hands were just a blur as they walked bass lines. A couple things I did notice is on most all songs all they really concentrate and their eyes never leave the keyboard. Also I noticed their hands are really playing far apart much of the time with the right hand doing a bunch of work in the last couple octaves. Bob Seeley was a friend of Mead Lux Luis and apparently visited him many times. Bob had a piano stool there he showed us along with a picture of Mead setting on it. I’ve seen that same picture in a couple books and on the internet so it was kinda neat to actually see that stool that support Mead’s frame which was big.
Seeing them play live was good inspiration for me .. I got to work on getting my left hand moving. I think alot of the tunes they played had to be moving along at 146 bpm .. maybe faster.
Comments