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Michael Pewny (born November 11, 1963, Vienna, Austria) is a Blues, Boogie Woogie and Jazz Piano player from Austria.
Biography[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
As a son of an Insurance Director Leopold, as making music runs in the family, he started playing classical Piano at the age of six. Beside of that he studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Danube University Krems and Vienna Conservatory from 1991 to 2006. At age thirteen, he taught himself to play Blues & Boogie Woogie Piano by listening to old records of his favourite piano Players Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis. Pewny[1] has been on stage for 35years. He used to play concerts with Bill Haley & His Comets, Axel Zwingenberger, Wanda Jackson, Vince Weber, Al Copley, Tony Sheridan, Linda Lewis, Bob Seeley, Little Willie Littlefield, Big Jay McNeely, Silvan Zingg, Carl Sonny Leyland, Stella Jones, Karen Carroll, Dana Gillespie and much more. He toured all around the World and played concerts and festivals in Vienna, New Orleans, Chicago, Paris, Cincinnati, La Roquebrou, Ermelo, Ecaussines,Danzig, Warsaw, Budapest, Hamburg, Kitzbühel and Munich. Bellaphon Records released 15 CDs also under Pewny`s Label Susy Records founded in 1999. From 2007 to 2014 Pewny was artist director of the internat. Blues & Boogie Woogie Piano Festival in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria. [2]: In 2009 Pewnys music with Torsten Zwingenberger was considered in the US- Hollywood-Movie He`s Just Not That Into You by Warner Bros, [3]: [4]
Discography[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
Under his name:
- 1998/1994 Vienna Boogie Woogie SR04 CD with Torsten Zwingenberger
- 1990 Left Hand Roller SR05CD with Dana Gillespie,Martin Wichtl
- 1992 Boogie On My Mind SR07CD with Martin Wichtl, Sabine Ruzicka
- 1996 Crazy Bout Boogie SR06CD with Christian Dozzler,
- 1999 Movin To Chicago SR01CD with Al Cook, Leopold Pewny
- 2000 20 Years Jamboree SR02Cd with Oscar Klein,Willi Meerwald, Hans Bichler
- 2001 Steamin Blues SR03CD with Kathie Kern, Sister Shirley Sydnor, Heini Altbart
- 2003 Going Gospel live SR08 CD mit Anke Lamprecht
- 2003 live in Castle Perchtoldsdorf SR01DVD
- 2004 Jazzy Blues SR09CD with Karen Carroll
- 2007 Live in Cincinnati SR10CD & friends feat. Ricky Nye, Julian Philips
- 2009 Best of 30 years SR11CD & friends
- 2012 The Hollywood Piano Player SR12CD solo
- 2014 Live in Vienna Reigen feat. Big Jay McNeely SR13CD
- 2014 Live in Vienna SR14CD solo
- 2015 Special Blues Nights in Vienna SR15CD solo
Influences[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
Among his biggest influences, Pewny cited pianists as Axel Zwingenberger,Meade Lux Lewis,Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson.
Books[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
- Axel Melhart: 30 Years of Jazzland Vienna, Pichler, 2002 Vienna
References[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
Bellaphon Michael Pewny German National Library