Diz & The Doormen - Diz-Connected

Album: Diz-Connected
Size: 127,8 MB
Time: 55:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2024
Styles: Blues, piano blues
Art: Front

1. Same Old Blues (2:57)
2. I'd Do It All Again (2:58)
3. Diz-Connected (3:20)
4. Mess Around (4:42)
5. Life (3:29)
6. Marabu Blue (3:36)
7. You Bring Out The Boogie In Me (3:18)
8. That Old Piano (3:27)
9. I'm On Fire (2:15)
10. A Jockey Full Of Bourbon (3:48)
11. Blue Gene Jump (4:10)
12. Sailing On (4:20)
13. Hotel Happiness (2:56)
14. Yours Truly (3:19)
15. Amora De Loca (3:13)
16. Lovely Lene (3:24)

Diz Watson is the Guv'nor when it comes to British boogie woogie piano - he's spent more than half a century singing funky blues, his left hand ensuring people dance. On Diz-Connected - his first new album in thirteen years - he mixes original compositions with the songs he loves. He's backed by a superb Danish band, British horn players Nick Pentelow and Nick Payn and his longtime percussionist, 95-year old Tony Uter. Tony's Jamaican-Cuban rhythms link Watson to Errol Dixon, Professor Longhair, Ruben Gonzalez and other legendary piano pioneers of the Caribbean world. Diz-Connected is a celebration of music and life.

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Diz & The Doormen - Bluecoat Man

Album: Bluecoat Man
Size: 99,3 MB
Time: 42:48
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1981/2002
Styles: R&B
Art: Full

1. No Buts, No Maybes (2:43)
2. Mardi Gras In New Orleans (3:48)
3. She Walks Right In (2:35)
4. Are You Going My Way (4:39)
5. Swanee River Jump (2:17)
6. Bluecoat Man (3:20)
7. Go On Fool (2:56)
8. Byrd's Bop (3:04)
9. Sick And Tired (2:58)
10. Blow Wind Blow (4:48)
11. On Bended Knee (Previously Unissued) (2:14)
12. Diz's Dream (Previously Unissued) (3:25)
13. The Sheik Of Araby (Previously Unissued) (3:53)

Led by British pianist/vocalist Diz Watson, Diz and the Doormen imported the sounds of New Orleans-style R&B and rock to the United Kingdom in the early-1980s. Their 1981 debut album, Bluecoat Man featured guest appearances by New Orleans-born saxophonist Lee Allen and trumpeter Roger Lewis of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and included such classic New Orleans tunes as "Blow Wind Blow", "Mardi Gras In New Orleans" and "Sick And Tired". An early contributor to the band, Charlie Hart, bass player for the Ronnie Lane Band, described the group's unique approach as "different from the average British R&B Bands playing lumpy shuffles. The music was rhumba-based, rhythmically complex and echoed Africa." /Biography by Craig Harris, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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