Exceptional piano player with a deep knowledge of boogie-woogie language in its most pure form, style, tradition and approaching, Jean-Paul Amouroux brings us a magnificent album with 21 songs inspired by 30’s and 40’s great masters of blues and boogie-woogie styles With a fine stylistic elegance, Amouroux walks along the piano keys, driving us to those times where Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Jimmy Yancey, Memphis Slim and other great boogie masters were popular and at their pick in this musical genre, which main feature is it catches listeners from the first notes, making them raise up from their seats to dance With an impressive discography of forty-four records until 2006, for this album Amouroux has collected a series of improvisations recorded in 1994 of boogie-woogie piano except one song he plays with celesta, another with harpsichord and another one with organ It is always a risk to produce an album with an hour of piano solo with no backing instruments, especially if you play boogie-woogie, an style where mediocrity becomes immediately evident and demands to be performed with a good dose of swing to avoid to fall into monotony, but Jean Paul succeeds in this challenge, playing all songs with an amazing strength and an unlimited sensitivity, which gives a lot of swing, an unbelievable groove and an extraordinary rhythm