Karel Boehlee Trio - Blue Prelude (2017)

Tracklist

01. My Ideal
02. Che Voule Questa Musika Stasera
03. Blue Prelude
04. High Times
05. Tangonato
06. Missing You
07. Sweet & Lovely
08. Anastasia
09. The Rhythm Of Changes
10. Goodbye
11. Serenity

Karel Boehlee, Born in Leiden, Holland, April 23, 1960. Started playing the piano very young, when his father brought jazz music into his life, Karel’s mother played classical music for fun, his brother loved afro-american music, like James Brown, Stevie Wonder Aretha Franklin etc. his sister was more into popmusic. It created the right environment to gather many music styles.
Boehlee learned to play the piano by listening, not through lessons. He started to realise that he wanted to be a professional musician, when he was more than 20 years old. In 1983 he studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Since then Karel Boehlee played with Toon Roos, Martijn van Iterson, Peter Tiehuis, Ferdinand Povel, Theo de Jong, Jesse van Ruller, Simone Pormes, Toots Thielemans, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Roberta Gambarini, Lo van Gorp, Hein van de Geyn, Martijn Vink, Gino Vannelli, Joris Roelofs, Ben Herman, Philip Catherine, Hans van Oosterhout, Frans van der Hoeven,Tom Beek, Fay Claassen, Peter Erskine and many more. With most of these people he recorded. He made 8 cd’s for the japanese label ‘Keystone Records’, with Hein van de Geyn and Hans van Oosterhout. Last year Karel had a tour in Japan and Korea with this trio. Karel is perhaps Holland’s best-kept secret. I remember hearing him play in the early eighties, when I just returned from the United States. He was the first pianist of this kind of modern class I had ever heard in Holland.
And on what level! Over the years Karel has improved and improved. The lines became more thoughtful, the harmony more precise; the rhythm was always very strong, but became larger, more in the pocket. Yet underneath all these ingredients there was always something more powerful: the sound! Karel’s sound is unique; his touch just seems to reach you right in the centre of where music enters the soul. With impeccable taste Karel will always come up with something fresh, something his own and makes it sound so good.

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