Martijn Schok (NL), piano.
Greta Holtrop (NL), vocals.
Tristan Patigny (B), drums.
Martijn Schok (NL), piano.
The name Martijn Schok is synonymous with boogie woogie and piano blues. Martijn has played many European jazz and blues festivals and can be seen regularly at festivals in the USA. Martijn performs solo, as well as with his swinging band, and has up till now released sixteen successful boogie woogie CDs. Also, Martijn can be heard on many CDs as a guest boogie woogie or blues piano player. October 19th 2013, Martijn received the German Pinetop Boogie Woogie Award “Pianist Of The Year 2013/2014”. This award is the most important music award for Boogie Woogie in Germany and was awarded for the third time. Martijn’s piano style is characterized by a large dose of swing, a steady groove and a high degree of virtuosity. It is clear he has a great deal of admiration for the music of the early American boogie woogie originators. Martijn is a respected interpreter of the boogie woogie style and appears at famous international festivals, such as the festival in New Orleans (Louisiana, USA), the Queen City Blues Festival in Cincinnati (Ohio, USA), the Motor City Boogie & Blues Festival in Detroit (Michigan, USA), Blues Passions in France, and the international boogie woogie festivals in Switzerland, Belgium, France, Italy, England, Spain and the USA. Besides his performing qualities, Martijn is the Artistic Director and founder of the Heineken International Boogie & Blues Festival Holland.
Greta Holtrop (NL), vocals.
With her versatile vocal talent and charismatic stage presence, singer Greta Holtrop forms the perfect partner for Martijn’s swinging piano style. Her expressive voice, full of sincerity and emotion, seduces the ear with sultry interpretations of sensitive blues songs, turning just as easily to lively, swinging boogies. Boogie woogie great, Big Joe Duskin, has described her vocal tone as somewhere between Billie Holiday and Dina Washington. Together with Martijn, Greta performed during Boogie Woogie and Blues Festival in the USA, Switzerland, France, Belgium and England. Greta also sang with other top boogie woogie players such as Bob Seeley (USA), Charlie Booty (USA), Jean-Paul Amouroux (F), Axel Zwingenberger (D), Ricky Nye (USA), Little Willie Littlefield (USA), Silvan Zingg (CH), Stefano Franco (It) and Mark Braun (USA). Greta was the vocalist and presenter of the successful theatre show, The Grand Piano Boogie Train with pianists Martijn Schok, Jaap Dekker and Jeroen Sweers. Greta performed many times for national television in Holland as well as regional TV stations in the USA.
Tristan Patigny (B), drums)
Tristan Patigny was born in 1964 in Brussels into a family of professional musicians. His father was a violinist with the National Orchestra and then a violist with the RTBF Symphony Orchestra. He was also a bow maker for some of the greatest violin virtuosos. His mother, organist at St. Gudule Cathedral, became a presenter on RTBF’s Radio Classique. Tristan Patigny began his percussion studies with Calyer Duncan and attended the Boisfort Academy with André Van Belle, then the Royal Conservatory of Music with George Octors Jr. After graduating from the conservatory, he joined the RTBF Symphony Orchestra for two years. Fascinated by jazz, he embraced swing and taught himself. At home, records of Grand Jazz were constantly playing, and his parents, brothers, and sister would jam with friends. Tristan Patigny has become one of Belgium’s most prominent drummers, playing a variety of styles on numerous stages in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Switzerland with the Guy Raiff Trio, the Eddy Defacq Quartet, and Squeeze Me Jazz Band, with whom he has recorded. He also plays in small groups with Phil Abraham, Paul Dubois, Roger Vanhaverbeke, Alexandre Furnelle, Jean Van Lint, Jean-Pierre Mouton, Marc Hérouet, Yves Gourmeur, and Jules Van Dijk. Internationally, he is the festival accompanist for his brother, Renaud Patigny, with whom he continues to collaborate live and in the studio. He also plays for Fabrice Eulry, Pascal Michaux, Philippe Lejeune, Jean-Paul Amouroux, Stéphanie Trick, Chris Conz, Christophe Steinbach, Gene Taylor, and Sharrie Williams. Tristan Patigny plays and records with the Floreffe Jazz Orchestra Big Band, for which he is the
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