Concerts d'Axel Zwingenberger Tournée 2024-2025

Biographie

Axel Zwingenberger (born May 7, 1955 in Hamburg, Germany) is a blues and boogie-woogie pianist, and songwriter. He is one of the finest boogie-woogie music masters in the world.[1] Zwingenberger was born in Hamburg, Germany, and enjoyed eleven years of conventional piano training. In 1973 he listened to boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, Meade "Lux" Lewis, and Pete Johnson. He soon joined piano playing partners Hans-Georg Mller, Vince Weber and Martin Pyrker, and word about the four friends began to spread. In 1974, played at the First International Blues-and-Boogie Woogie Festival of the West German Radio Station in Cologne was followed by Hans Maitners annual festival Stars of Boogie Woogie in Vienna. By 1975, Zwingenberger received his first recording contract, issuing such solo recordings as Boogie Woogie Breakdown, Power House Boogie, and Boogie Woogie Live, as well as lending his talents to recordings by such artists as Lionel Hampton, Jay McShann, Big Joe Turner, Lloyd Glenn, Joe Newman, Sippie Wallace, Mama Yancey, Champion Jack Dupree, Sammy Price, Ray Bryant, Charlie Watts, Vince Weber, and the Mojo Blues Band, among others. In addition to issuing other solo recordings, Zwingenberger continues to tour all over the world and has also authored several publications about blues/boogie-woogie music and musicians, "Boogie Woogie: Piano Solos".[2] He is also known for his photographs of steam locomotives, including some taken from within the machinery itself. He is the co-owner of the world's fastest operational steam locomotive, the German DR 18 201. Selective discography Year Title Genre Label Notes 2007 Groovology Blues Vagabond 2001 Brothers in Boogie Blues Vagabond w/Torsten Zwingenberger 2001 Swing the Boogie! Blues Vagabond 1993 Friends of Boogie, Vol. 4 Blues Vagabond w/Mama Yancey 1992 Between Hamburg & Hollywood Blues Vagabond w/Big Joe Turner, Joe Newman, Lloyd Glenn, Torsten Zwingenberger 1992 And the Friends of Boogie, Vol. 1 Blues Vagabond w/Sippie Wallace 1992 Boogie Woogie Classics Blues Polygram Int'l 1991 Axel Zwingenberger & His Friends of Boogie Woogie Blues Vagabond w/Torsten Zwingenberger & Champion Jack Dupree 1989 Champ's Housewarming Blues Da w/Champion Jack Dupree, Mojo Blues Band 1978 Boogie Woogie Breakdown Blues Telefunken 1976 Boogie Woogie Session Blues EMI w/ Hans-Georg Möller, Martin Pyrker & Torsten Zwingenberger Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.