Piano Blues & Boogie Woogie Keito Saito

• 1 Answer To The Boogie 02:25
• 2 Pinetop's Boogie Woogie 03:26
• 3 After Hours 04:13
• 4 State Street Jive - Cow Cow Blues 04:10
• 5 Suitcase Blues 04:30
• 6 At The Window 03:39
• 7 St. Louis Blues 03:14
• 8 Black Fantasy 02:55
• 9 How Long Blues 02:30
• 10 Just For You 02:31
• 11 Freight Train Blues 02:27
• 12 Freight Train Boogie Woogie 04:25
• 13 Lonesome Blues 04:35
• 14 A Left Hand Like God - In Honor Of Boogie Woogie Meisters 06:02
• 15 Life Goes On 05:37
• Total Runtime 56:39

Info for Piano Blues & Boogie Woogie

In seiner Heimat Japan nennt man ihn respektvoll Keito-San. Er ist dort der Meister des Boogie Woogie-Pianos, einer Musikform, die vor ihm in dieser Weltgegend praktisch unbekannt war. Gefunden hatte Keito eine Aufnahme mit dieser Musik in Europa, wo er sich zwecks Musikstudiums in Luxemburg aufhielt. Zurück in seiner Heimat - mit Axel Zwingenbergers Schallplatte "Power House Boogie" im Gepäck - brachte er sich das Boogiespiel autodidaktisch bei. Es gab damals niemanden in Japan, der so Klavier gespielt hat. Das erste persönliche Treffen zwischen Keito und Axel 1999 in München entwickelte sich spontan zu einer vierhändigen Session am Bösendorfer-Konzertflügel. Dadurch noch mehr animiert formte Keito gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder Moriya das Pianoduett "Les Frères" - gemeinsam an einem Bösendorfer-Konzertflügel. Sie sind heute gefeierte Stars in Japan und ganz Fernost, füllen große Hallen und haben einen Boom an rhythmischem Pianospiel zu 4 Händen ausgelöst. Immer wieder lädt Keito Axel nach Japan zu Tourneen ein, sogar eine gemeinsame CD wurde dort 2010 aufgenommen. Keito komponiert viele Stücke selbst, bringt sie hochvirtuos am Flügel zum Leben, würzt mit viel Bluesfeeling und begeistert das Publikum mit seiner charmanten Bühnenpräsenz.

Keito Saito, Klavier

Keito Saito
Born on November 18, 1978. Started playing piano at the age of 6. He was accepted to Conservatoire de Musique de la Ville de Luxembourg when he was15 and returned to Japan at the age of 17. He learned to play and master boogie piano which he met in Europe on his own.He per formed with world-famous German Boogie Woogie pianist Mr. Axel Zwingenberger in the spring of 2000 when he was 21. After returning to Japan, he has become an active trailblazer in Boogie Woogie piano, devoting his talent to bringing Boogie Woogie to the mainstream on the Japanese music scene. He was the first Japanese to be ever invited at the International Boogie Woogie Festival, and done many per formances abroad. In November 2008, he released his first solo album “Boogie Woogie Far East” (Universal Music) and it became a historical step of Japanese Boogie Woogie scene. In April 2012, he has released a live album with Mr. Axel Zwingenberger called “THE JOY OF BOOGIE WOOGIE/LIVE”(Quatre Mains Records); and as a successor to classical Boogie Woogie and a pianist of the next Boogie Woogie generation, he plays a wider field of activities as a leader of Asian Boogie Woogie scene, and has attracted a great deal of attention from music fans in Japan and abroad with his excellent sense of rhythm and improvisation.

As a composer he has produced many pieces for various fields such as “Cross No.3”(a theme for “4 minutes” 2007 German Academy awarded film), “mascarade from Kanpeki na Oshiro Variations” (“Onegin” Takarazuka Revue), “ To The Sky”(House Wellness Foods’ C1000 Lemon Water TV commercial tune), Yagi Mokuzai Sangyou’s Epios Long Life TV commercial tune, “For Kids’ ”(YOU TV Safety for Children image tune) and so on. His melodious and poetic as well as a narrative music has been used for theater and ballet also. He has been gaining experiences steadily as a composer that there are many expectations for his future activity.

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