Diz-Connected

Diz Watson is the Guv'nor when it comes to British boogie woogie piano - he's spent more than half a century singing funky blues, his left hand ensuring people dance - On Diz-Connected - his first new album in thirteen years - he mixes original compositions with the songs he loves - He's backed by a superb Danish band, British horn players Nick Pentelow and Nick Payn and his longtime percussionist, 95-year old Tony Uter - Tony's Jamaican-Cuban rhythms link Watson to Errol Dixon, Professor Longhair, Ruben Gonzalez and other legendary piano pioneers of the Caribbean world