New CD with Solo Piano recordings
The new CD "Solo Boogie Woogie And Blues Piano" by Martijn Schok
is available via this website.
With 14 previously unreleased live, studio and private home recordings
and a selection of 5 early studio recordings. All
tracks are solo piano pieces that Martijn recorded between 1994 and 2008.
The CD costs 20 Euro or US$ 30.00 each, excluded shipping costs. For shipping
cost information, please click here.
For
more information and to order, please click here.
MA 7402
Internationales Dixieland Festival Dresden 2008
16 and 17th of May, the Martijn Schok Boogie & Blues Band performed four times during the Internationales Dixieland Festival Dresden 2008, in Dresden, Germany.
The festival is one of the worlds biggest jazz festivals. A recording of the song "Let The Four Winds Blow" performed by the Martijn Schok Boogie & Blues Band will be issued on the 'sampler CD' of this festival, as produced by the organisation of the event, and will be available via this website.
Jazzfestival Dresden
New CD
The new CD of the Martijn Schok Boogie & Blues Band is available now! The CD costs 20 Euro or US$ 30.00, excluded shipping costs. For shipping cost information, please click here.
The name of the album is "Let The Four Winds Blow", after the famous composition by Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew. Besides this groovy piece, the CD features more New Orleans compositions and of course boogie woogie and piano blues.
The recording sessions took place in January 2008 in Studio Greenfields Forever in Amsterdam of bandmember and studio technician Rinus Groeneveld. Graphic design and mastering of the album were done by drummer Maarten Kruijswijk.
For soundsamples and ordering information, please click here...!
MA
7401
Sold-Out International Boogie Woogie Festival Holland 2008
The International Boogie Woogie Festival Holland 2008 was a sold-out succes. The festival took place on March 8th 2008 in hotel Heerlickheijd van Ermelo. A DVD video impression of the event will be produced which will be available via the festival website.
Martijn invited six boogie woogie piano players from all around the world during his festival in Ermelo. See picture: l-r: Renaud Patigny (Belgium), Little Willie Littlefield (USA), Jean-Pierre Bertrand (F), Henry Butler (USA), Rob Rio (USA) and Don 'Papadon' Washington (USA).
Martijn Schok and his band accompanied the artists during this event. The next edition of the festival will be March 7th 2009. See www.boogiefestival.nl for more information, or contact Martijn Schok.
Invited by Martijn for the festival in 2008 were:
Renaud Patigny, Little Willie Littlefield, Jean-Pierre
Bertrand, Henry Butler, Rob Rio and
Don 'Papadon' Washington
Click on the picture for a bigger version.
Martijn Schok Newsletter
In case you'd like to be informed about special concerts, new CDs, DVDs, TV- or radio shows or interviews by Martijn Schok or the Martijn Schok Boogie & Blues Band, you can apply for the Martijn Schok Newsletter. To join the Martijn Schok mailing list, please click here.
After receiving your information, you'll receive the Martijn Schok Newsletter regularly.
This newsletter is apart from the Boogie Woogie & Piano Blues Newsletter, which you can apply for seperately (see below).
Boogie Woogie Documentary
Martijn's performance during the International Boogie Woogie Festival Holland 2007 will be included in a new USA documentary about boogie woogie. This documentary is in its production process in 2008.
Martijn Schok during the International
Boogie Woogie Festival Holland 2007
Martijn Schok CDs of 1998 and 1996 available again
The CDs Trainride
(1998) and Doin' The Boogie Woogie (1996) of the Martijn Schok Boogie
Woogie Trio are available again.
To order the CDs, please click on the CD page of
this website.
Trainride (1998) - Available again!
Doin' The Boogie Woogie
(1996) - Available again!
