Bob Hall Boogie Woogie Biography
This CD from Bob Hall has been a long time coming to these pages. I first heard him on the web at his website, way back in 1998 or so. Here you can find out all about Bob Hall.
Here are bits taken from the liner notes of this CD, “At The Window” is the followng quote: “There’s a great, true little story which demonstrates in no small way the absolute commitment and seriousness with which British Blues players took to their art.
Not too long ago, Mike Rowe – an editor of Blues Unlimited, a noted Blues researcher, and the author of Chicago Breakdown – went over to Detroit to research the life of one of the great 1940s piano players, Big Maceo Merriweather (1905-1953). Rowe went from bar to bar in Detroit, asking elderly residents what the scene was like back in the 40s. In one hostelry, he approached an old black piano player and asked if there was anyone still around who played like Big Maceo. The old guys sitting around the nearby tables and the bar all shook their heads. Then the piano player said: ‘Ain’t nobody around plays like Big Maceo…’bout the only guy I know who plays like him is a guy in London called Bob Hall…
Bob Hall not only plays hs music well but has meticulously studied the backdrop against which it was formed. The New Orleans Review summed him up accurately: ‘This s a piano player who knows his music through and through, and who can hold hs own on this showing with the best in the world’ ”
Hall’s grasp of Blues piano is perhaps one of the most authentic in Europe today, which is why Bob Hall will never be out of work.