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Project Boogie (2007) Minimize
MLJ MusicBoogie Woogie
Picture of "Project Boogie"Project Boogie
By Jon Sarta

Release Date: August 7, 2007
Price: $9.99


Project Boogie is a collection of improvs done in the MLJ Music studio. They evolved by taking a simple groove or idea and developing it. If the overall feel of the track merited it being a keeper, it was left in even if there were some rough spots. This is the essence of Boogie Woogie as done by the pioneers; Ammons, Lewis, Yancey, Johnson, not always pretty, but raw and powerful; the songs worked and each one had its own quality. This is the reason I prefer not to punch in to cover mistakes or to make a "perfect" album. I strongly believe that excessive post-production is not in the spirit of traditional Boogie Woogie.

Cover and Back Cover Photos: To go with the theme of "Project Boogie", I found these photos on the Smithsonian website. They date from the 1940's. The ladies are working in a factory taking apart pianos for the metal, which was to be used in airplane engines for the war effort.

Note: This album is DRM Free and will work on any MP3 player. It is a high quality, 320 kbps MP3 file.


Tracks from this AlbumPrice    
1.  The Minor Boogie$0.99 Preview Buy Track
2.  Get Up and Dance$0.99 Preview Buy Track
3.  Special for Yancey$0.99 Preview Buy Track
4.  Double Up$0.99 Preview Buy Track
5.  The High Boogie$0.99 Preview Buy Track
6.  Boogie 9A$0.99 Preview Buy Track
7.  Slow, then Go! Boogie$0.99 Preview Buy Track
8.  Ten Finger Boogie$0.99 Preview Buy Track
9.  Boogie 9B$0.99 Preview Buy Track
10.  Almost a 10 Boogie$0.99 Preview Buy Track
11.  Fore Boogie$0.99 Preview Buy Track
12.  Boogie Groove$0.99 Preview Buy Track
13.  The Low Boogie$0.99 Preview Buy Track
14.  Straight Ahead Boogie Woogie$0.99 Preview Buy Track
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I've got Project Boogie, not the first of Jon Sarta's CDs and I hope,not the last one. I put it into my player, sat down, closed my eyes -and guess, what I had in mind: I saw Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, 
Otis Spann and all the other great pianists. For me, Jon Sarta is a real torchbearer of the Boogie. He's a unique pianoman and I know, that my listeners like his music too. I'm very glad, that I have the opportunity, to present his music here on ok:radio Bremerhaven/Germany.

Erhard Albrecht

 

   

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Jon hails from Ridgewood, New Jersey. He studied classical music in high school, then at Farleigh Dickinson University and Berklee College of Music in Boston. Now living in Florida, he can be heard performing at the Crowne Plaza hotel at Orlando airport as well as at Walt Disney World, which doesn’t prevent him from providing several local parishes with music. On the lay side, Jon has roughly released one boogie woogie album a year since 2003. Out of the 14 tracks (all self-penned) of the album, there are four slower ones, among them “Special for Yancey”. Among the others, all rooted in the tradition of masters of the style, the Ammons, Yancey or Johnson, because they were cut in the right mood without overproduction, you’ll get the choice etween.
......As regards the cover photo, it comes from 1943 files
: (dis)assembly line workers are separating ivory keys from 
metallic parts of a piano keyboard to save the metal for
plane engines (that was in the heart of WWII). 

Highly recommended to fans of Jerry Lee Lewis piano style.

 Bernard Boyat for Cri du Coyote N°102 Magazine- France

 
 
   
   

 

 

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