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Bob Toabe
"What I want most (in my music) is deep and free-flowing emotional content."
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Music Bio - BOB TOABE – Solo Piano
”You should be playing concerts
everywhere!” McCoy Tyner
”Wow, it really transported me...like
floating in space...I loved it!” Al Foster
“Do you know Bobby; he’s a great piano
player.” Esperanza to Hiromi “Yes, of
course.”
“When can we play together?” Anat
Cohen
”Gifted, rare talent, musical genius,
deserving the best concert grand’s,
world-wide.” Hewitt
Huntworth
”Yeah man, I really liked it!” Eric Jackson,
WGBH
”Reminiscent of Keith Jarrett, McCoy
Tyner, Debussy...though a style all his
own.”
“Oh yeah man…that was beautiful, just the
best! Let’s do another.” Keii Chi Hashimoto
BIOGRAPHY As a young boy Bobby
played along the rocky New England
seacoast. It was as though
the salt air and ocean waves filled him
with music, imbuing his creativity with a
natural song and
rhythm. Even as a child, his prodigious
musical improvisation, rich in emotional
content, brought
recognition and praise from music
teachers and concert audiences alike.
As an early adolescent, he ventured from
the piano to the study of wind, voice,
strings, and a wide
assortment of percussion instruments. It
was in the theatre however where, as the
youngest
member of the Boston-based Performing
Arts Repertory Company, that he
developed a potently
creative stage, music & performance style.
By high school, the ever-industrious
musician found
himself forming a variety of eclectic
improvisation groups. His sound was
influence by a broad
range of contemporary jazz, classical, and
international music. He listened to Keith
Jarrett, Chic
Corea, Miles, and Coltrane. However,
more than anything else it was his early
personal meetings (at
age 15) with McCoy Tyner and Pharaoh
Sanders that moved and inspired the
direction of his music.
Today his original and fluid piano style
captures concert audiences with a sound
that is rich, sweet,
and hypnotic. He has been a regular at
the Ritz Carlton – Boston Common, and
the Boston Piano
Festival. At the world’s largest blues
festival (Mississippi Valley Blues Festival),
he appeared as a
duo with the Regal Queen of the Blues -
Shirley Lewis, and played a duet with
Pinetop Perkins.
“What I want most (in my music) is deep
and free-flowing emotional content. I
want my audience to
move with me over the keyboard...letting
the music flow through us like a soft
sweet breeze, like an
ocean wave...seeking expression of our
deepest needs, our essential selves.”
CURRENT TOUR - Bobby is available for
touring throughout the 2021and into the
2022 season.
DOWNLOADS on CD Baby, iTunes,
Amazon, etc.
[email protected]
C 508-685-5020
My Jazz Story
My House Concert Story
Oh yeah - house concerts are fabulous. I've attended many of them from groups of 20 to over 50 guests. It's so intimate and such a comfortable environment for music performance and listening. Most charge $10 - $20 per person. There's always food and drink. Of course I always bring something to drink or flowers for the host. Sometimes it's a single musician, or others that I've been to have been bands from 3 - 7 musicians. Sometimes there's a kind of showcase of different musicians through the evening. I went to one (where I was invited to play) at the home where the wonderful group Women of the World, live. It was a holiday house concert and they had invited about 8 different musicians from different cultures to perform holiday songs from their peoples. That was lots of fun and a great mix of music, musicians, and music lovers. My most memorable one featured Ali Paris and Aron Goldberg as a duo. The host had a beautiful steinway grand. It was during the day with about 30 guests in a very modern home in the woods. That was fun. I'm available at the drop of a hat if you know anyone looking for a house concert performer :)-
