| Jazz Ascona 2007 - The Group A taste of excitement at the JazzAscona fest which was a non-stop BALL !! |
| Jazz Ascona 2007 - Really getting DOWN !! This guy still lays down on the job, and fingers the blues too... |
| Jazz Ascona 2007 - Drop Kick JazzAscona put up a couple of new stages this year, and we had the great pleasure of playing not only for the large group of jazz purists but also for the happy and beautiful Ticinese fun-lovers.
Music crosses all lines.
In the background here is Bryan Frankie Rizzuto, who not only made his first trip to Europe for JazzAscona, but wowed the crowd with his big drive on the upright.
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| photo courtesy of Luc Lambert How Sweet It Is !! |
| "Crying the Blues" -- A. F. Wensler, photographer "Crying the Blues" is an award-winning photo by the German jazz photographer Alexander F. Wensler, which took the prize in the German magazine Foto-Forum. |
| Jump Swing ! Photo by Hunter Marston What motivates this guy? Click, I dare ya ! |
| Jazz Ascona 2007 - Jimmy Biggins Here is the Great Jimmy "B" Biggins, Mr. All-Soul in action in Ascona 2007. |
| Jazz Ascona 2007 - Steve Peck Steve "Big Swing" Peck has the easiest way of kickin' out the backbeat the way that pleases the dancers AND the listeners. |
| Roomful of Blues, 1969 Left to right --- Al Copley, Fran Christina, Larry Peduzzi, and Mike "Duke" Robillard. Watch Hill, RI. Photo by Julie Speed. I think this was BEFORE we discovered City Blues ! |
| I Was a Teenage Werewolf Part 1 Check out the "do" ! Toronto 1980 -- look out Michael Landen !! |
| 1 Was a Teenage Werewolf Part 2 This is a good image from Roomful days in Sweet Home TO. |
| Balve, Germany There is such a WILD blues audience in this Neaderthal-era cave which holds 3,000 people. This is pianoplunker's heaven. They got it ALL out of me there ! Photo by Uli Steinfeld. |
| Not a plea --- a Thank You !! You're a wonderful audience ! Balve, Germany, Tenth Anniversary festival. Photo by Uli Steinfeld. |
| I want YOU !! Balve Hohle, Germany. Photo by Uli Steinfeld. |
| Johannes Simon, photographer A warm concert on a cold, snowy January night near Munich, in Furstenfeldbruck. A GREAT Steinway, a terrifically cultured audience in an 18th Century chateau --- wouldn't you feel good too? |
| Pierre Moreau, photographer Paris is really a BALL, at the Caveau de la Huchette. Come on in now !! |
| Pierre Moreau, photographer Another shot with the ambiance of Paris. |
| Philippe Maeder, photographer This was a show at an enormous disco in Lausanne, the Club Eclipse. Twenty minutes into the 70-min. set, some kid tore a circuit off of the outside wall & the place went lights out. 2,500 kids, midnight, Saturday night --- could have been dangerous, but it was "acoustically electric !" I was SO happy to be on an acoustic grand piano. The lid came up, the bassist plunked harder & the drummer came down. I shouted songs at the audience. They sang back.
The crowd all seemed to come two inches closer to us, and by the end of those long 11 minutes, they were completely WITH US. It was there that I learned that techno clubs don’t really hypnotise kids ---- they just want to be where the other kids are, without interference. They LIKE Music, and they loved hearing it acoustically. It was a really special night for me. |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer This gig was a blues festival in Cognac, France. A great taste !! I was IN Cognac, not ON cognac !! |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer Another shot in Cognac. |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer They gave me a bottle with my name on the label? Cognac, France |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer I LOVE playing outdoors at night, to a delightful French audience in an amphitheatre on a warm August evening. Solo piano under the stars --- Cognac, France --- Aaah!! Feels so good ! |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer Now what am I thinking?? Cognac, France |
| Gala in Geneva Room decorated by Hermes. Pianist inspired by Erroll Garner.
Oh What a Night ! |
| Pierre Moreau, photographer I LOVE YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer OK, OK, I’ll do one more ! |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer You want what? |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer How did that spider get up here? I’ll get ’em ! |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer No more skin cream, please... Not before the show ! |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer What a Wonderful World ! |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer I said, "Whow!!!!!!!!" |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer Cognac, France |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer What am I thinking? Cognac, France |
| Pierre Ruaud, photographer Cognac, France |
| Herrliberg Jazz Concert A gig in Herrliberg, Switzerland with Sil Austin. "What are we gonna do now??" |
| Pierre Moreau, photographer From the Caveau de la Huchette, in Paris. We work extra hard for the bebop dancers there ! |
