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  BOOGIE STOMP! THE MOVIE  

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SEELEY BIOGRAPHY

BALDORI BIOGRAPHY

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Boogie Stomp! is a documentary film that will tell the story of boogie woogie, its origins, subsequent history and ongoing development.  Boogie Stomp! will also tell the story of the amazing Bob Seeley.  Bob Seeley spent his formative years playing with Meade Lux Lewis and other jazz greats in the 1950s and early 60s. Over the years Seeley has become known as the best boogie woogie and stride player in the world. His encyclopedic repertoire and exuberant delivery are unparalleled among contemporary players.

A few years ago Seeley met Bob Baldori at a boogie woogie festival in honor of the late Johnny Johnson, Chuck Berry's original piano player.  Baldori had been spacer playing piano and harmonica with Berry since 1966.  In addition to fronting his own group he had spent years playing blues, boogie and backbeat rock and roll in Chicago and Detroit. Baldori had been negotiating with a producer to do a documentary series on performing masters who were "under the radar" of pop culture. A biography of Seeley, incorporating the history of blues, boogie, jazz, stride, swing, rock and how all of these forms relate to each other seemed to be a perfect fit.

Boogie Stomp! documents how the basic elements of boogie woogie - rhythm and improvisation over a blues form - became the backbone o fAmerican music.  It is an exploration of the relationship between blues, jazz, boogie, swing, stride, rock, R & B and contemporary pop music. spacer

The movie also features "live" as well as studio performances of the canon of American blues, boogie and jazz roots by two of the best contemporary players in the world, including Boogie Stomp, Honky Tonk Train, Suitcase Blues, The Fives, Shake That Boogie and many others.

Boogie Stomp! Storms Into Local Cinemas
Seeley & Baldori
Boogie Stomp! "preview" screenings
March 2nd, Grand Rapids 7:30 p.m.
March 3rd, Lansing 4:30 & 6:30 p.m.
March 4th, Royal Oak 3:30 p.m.

Copyright 2007, Seeley & Baldori

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