This is a Boogie Woogie left hand pattern that I first saw played by a German Pianist called Jorg Hegemann at the UK Fomag Festival - at least I think this is what he plays during a song he performs called "Boogie Woogie Country Girl". I like the feel of it - very rhythmical and just a little bit different from your 'typical' Boogie?!

Movie recorded at The Paradiso Club, Amsterdam - March 2007. Quick story - been a keen fan of Saxon for years and was abit disappointed when I realised a date in my home town of Cardiff on 8th March coincided with a time that I would be away in Holland. Then they announced a gig two days later in Amsterdam where I would be - talk about fate lendi...

A medley of two different recordings of Jools Holland playing the Big Joe Turner classic "Sally Zuzas". First one was made in Dublin in October 2005. Played with the full 18 Piece Band, this version has a great 'swing' feel to it, and really good sound. Second one was made at The Paradiso Club in Amsterdam, March 2007. Played with a smaller tour...

Ben Waters Boogie Band, live at the Cork Jazz Festival - October 2006. Track performed is an rip-roaring arrangement of several well known pieces of music, including {towards the end} the 'Bumble Boogie'. Band line-up on the night featured Ben Waters {piano}, Derek Nash and Clive Ashley {saxes}, Chris Lonergan {bass} & Ady Milward {drums}. Ben ...

German Pianist Jorg Hegemann performing with his 3-Piece Band in the town of Bocham, Germany - March 2007. I am a very keen fan of Jorg's Boogie Woogie playing, but like most good pianists he can play other styles including The Blues. I was quite keen to showcase something 'other than Boogie Woogie' so this movie is a medlay of two pieces {neithe...

This is a short video explaining some of the fingering I use for playing Boogie Woogie left hand riffs. As you will see in the clip, I use an unusual 'transitional' finger method of moving about through some of the key changes. I don't want to call this either a lesson or "instructional video" as I myself am not sure my it's the right way to play...

Grammy Award winning reggae singer song-writer Jimmy Cliff live at the Cardiff Festival, August 2007. The song "Many Rivers To Cross" is a very powerful ballad, and has been covered by many Bands/Artistes including Van Morrison and UB40. I think it's fair to say though, that having heard Jimmy's sensational verson at the Cardiff Festival, the ori...

Track performed with his 18-Piece Rhythm and Blues Orchestra at Le Trebendo Club, Paris - March 2006. These days, Jools Holland is perhaps best known as a TV/Radio Presenter, and Big Band Leader. But as this video shows, he's also a superb pianist with a special talent for old style Boogie Woogie Piano Music. The track shown, i.e. 'The Bumble Bo...

Me just 'thrashing about' playing some fast {180 Beats per Minute} Rock and Roll in the Key of C. Inspiration for the left hand riff is from an Instructional DVD from the pianist Ben Waters - he uses it in his playing guide to the well known track "Johnny B. Goode"

Me playing "Summertime Bumble Boogie" at a charity 'Pianothon' at the St Davids Hall in Cardiff, 18th November 2006. The piece is 'sort of' an original composition, although it does have brief extracts from the music to 'Summertime' and also the 'Bumble Boogie'...so perhaps it's best termed an 'arrangement'. It is the first time I have attempted...

Track performed with his 18 Piece Rhythm and Blues Orchestra at the 'Cafe de Paris' in London, November 2006. The venue was small and intimate, and I found myself a great viewing position where I could overlook the stage and have an excellent view of Jools hands hitting the piano keys. I felt as if I was almost part of a special Boogie Woogie Ma...

Ben Waters at the Bulls Head, Barnes in London - November 2006. "The Melting Pot" is a superb arrangement of various bits of piano music, including {towards the end} the "Bumble Boogie". Plus points and minus points of the video?! Well...on the one hand it is rather dark...but on the other this is Ben playing solo on a £27000 Concert Yamaha Gran...

Jools Holland and his 18-Piece Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, on the official opening night of the new Indigo O2 Arena, in the Docklands Area of London. "Tuxedo Junction" is the old Erskine Hawkins standard - it's often said if you can't play this piece without swinging it, you're playing it wrong?! No worries on that front with Jools and the Band. ...

Julian Phillips at home playing an old Big Bill Broonzy inspired piano piece : "Just A Dream " Julian is one of the main organisers of the UK's Fomag International Boogie Woogie Festival, held annually each year in rural Dorset. He is also an accomplished Boogie Woogie Pianist and, aside from playing in the UK with his Band "The Stuff", he often ...

Legendary pianist Bob Seeley at the International Boogie Woogie Festival in Ermelo, Holland - March 2007. Both pieces played at the lively informal 'Pre-show' party, which offered up a great opportunity to watch this fantastic pianist close up. Not sure what the two pieces are called - but ones mainly 'Stride' and the other an out and out 'Boogie...

Track recorded live at a concert in Cardiff, May 2008. Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an American guitarist and former guitar instructor. He is widely recognized as a technically highly advanced rock guitarist and has often been described as a virtuoso. The track shown on this Movie, "Out Of The Sunrise", is from Joe Satriani's latest 2008 CD/Album ...

Me playing "Cold Hands Boogie" at a charity 'Pianothon' at the St Davids Hall in Cardiff, 17th November 2007. The piece is 'sort of' an original composition. The main left hand riff I got from a Ben Waters Instructional DVD and most of the right hand is just improvising around the C Blues Scale. The title : "Cold Hands Boogie" came about when I r...

Superb Boogie Woogie playing by German pianist Jorg Hegemann at the UK Fomag Festival in July 2006. As can be seen, this is Boogie Woogie piano in a traditional Bar Room setting {best place for it?!}. Jorg has a quite distinctive 'high fingers' style to his playing - it seems to give him both tremendous rhythmic power in the left hand, and often ...

Me practising a Boogie/Blues piece of music which I've called 'Steam Train Boogie Blues'. The track starts slowly in the Blues, before speeding up quite considerably half way through when entering into Boogie music territory.

Boogie Woogie Piano Duets are always great crowd-pleasers at the UK Festival, and they don't come much better than when played by The Piano Brothers, Marcel and Heinz Brunner, who made the trip over from Switzerland. The chemistry between the two brothers on stage is terriffic to watch - making the duets they play great fun! {In this video, Heinz...

This has got to be some of the finest Blues playing I have ever seen live! Movie clip was shot on the main stage at the International Boogie Woogie Festival in Ermelo, Holland - March 2007. Talk about a master of the blues 'clash note', lol! One thing I did observe was that, at times, his left hand was a bouncing down a full 3-4 inches off the ke...

Legendary Pianist Bob Seeley at the Dutch International Boogie Woogie Festival in Ermelo, March 2007. Movie starts with Bob talking a little bit about the history of this piece, mentioning both Jack Fina, Freddie Martin and the originl titel, i.e. "The Flight of the Bumble Bee". The version he played is very much like the original in that, assumi...

Track recorded with his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra at the Paradiso Club in Amsterdam, March 2007. Great venue for watching pianists as it has a seated balcony where you can get a good view of their hands hitting the piano keys. This 'Bumble Boogie' was memorable in that prior to playing it, Jools had had a few 'gremlins' with the piano. Two technic...

Jack 'Kid' Carter is a really authentic and fast Boogie Woogie performer, and is seen here playing on the main concert stage at the 2007 UK Boogie Woogie Festival. It's fair to say that Jack's style is perhaps best described as 'fast and furious' - but as you will see on the video, it's a great style and real crowd pleaser! Local Saxophone Player...

Me playing a "Boogie Woogie" piece of music I've been practicing recently. The piece is 'sort of' an original composition, although it does have brief extracts from the music to 'Summertime' and also the 'Bumble Boogie'...so perhaps it's best termed an 'arrangement'. Assuming this music is indeed 'Boogie Woogie', one interesting point is that it'...

Probably the most difficult/complex left hand Boogie Woogie pattern I know. It's 16 beats to the Bar {or notes per cycle} as opposed to the normal 8 - play as fast and hard as possible for the best effect! It's one I haven't copied or learnt from anyone - I stumbled across it and worked it out as I was randomly thrashing away at the piano one day....

Song recorded at a concert in Cardiff, September 2007, during one of a series of gigs in the "Clutching At Stars" Tour, promoting his new CD/Album '13th Star'. "Sugar Mice {In The Rain}" is one of my favourite older songs from the Fish's Marillion days, and I was really pleased when it was performed on the night. It features some stunning guitar ...

Three great pianists playing some lovely authentic Boogie Woogie Piano music, during the 2007 UK International Boogie Woogie Festival. The song is called "Down The Road Apiece". Singing is Eeco Rijken Rapp from Holland - well known on YouTube under the username of 'Freakyhead20' - ably assisted by Patrick Smet, Belgium, and Yvon Momboisse from Fra...

Movie recorded at the 38th International Jazz Meeting in Gent, Belgium - May 2008. Supurb Boogie Woogie playing by young French pianist Yvon Momboisse at this well supported Jazz/Dixieland Festival. "Death Ray Boogie" is a fast-tempo piece, generally attributed as originally done by the great pianist Pete Johnson, although it's fair to say that Y...

At the Fiddleford Inn, Boogie Woogie Piano playing continued well into the early hours of the morning in a bar/pub setting, where two upright pianos were available to everyone for open 'jam' sessions. It's now a lovely tradition that budding amateurs and enthusiasts can often get to play Piano Duets with the main Festival Performers. In this vide...