It’s Got a Backbeat —
You Can’t Lose It
It’s been called blues, jazz, boogie woogie, swing, stride, ragtime, R&B, and rock and roll. Underneath every label are the same three elements: rhythm, improvisation, and syncopation over a blues form. This is Roots American Music.
For more than half a century, Bob Baldori has been delivering riveting performances of American piano music to audiences around the world, alongside Arthur Migliazza and, over the years, Bob Seeley, Martin Schmitt, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Hubert Sumlin, and many others.
This site explores and documents that performance history, a story that’s still being written, with new shows, recordings, and films on the way.
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Boogie Stomp! tells the largely untold tale of boogie-woogie and how it has shaped popular music, and includes blues, jazz, swing, stride, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll. Starring two amazing performers, Bob Baldori and Arthur Migliazza, Boogie Stomp! is the story of past and present American musical legends from W.C. Handy to Benny Goodman to Chuck Berry to Macklemore, and the vibrant music that emerges from their lives.
Boogie Stomp! is also a critically acclaimed documentary, profiling the adventures and performances of Bob Baldori and Bob Seeley as well as documenting the origins, subsequent history, and ongoing development of American Piano Music in all its forms – boogie, blues, jazz, swing, stride, rhythm and blues, and rock.
Boogie Stomp! also captures the efforts of Bob Baldori, Arthur Migliazza, Bob Seeley, and other outstanding keyboard artists not only to preserve “America’s forgotten music” but to bring it into the modern age and make it accessible to contemporary audiences. It is music to party and dance to, and has universal, worldwide appeal. Watch and listen as you surf this site, and you will know why!
| San Antonio | October 22 – November 14 |
| Chicago | 2027 — Dates to be announced |
| St. Louis | 2027 — Dates to be announced |
| San Antonio | 2027 — Dates to be announced |
