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Met als vaste bezetting: Koos Wiltenburg-bas, Thomas Zoetelief-gitaar, Arno van Nieuwenhuize-drums.
Karel Boehlee begon met piano spelen op zeer jonge leeftijd toen zijn vader jazz-muziek in zijn leven bracht. Karel’s moeder speelde klassiek piano als hobby, zijn broer hield van soul-muziek van o.a. James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Earth wind and fire en Aretha Franklin terwijl zijn zuster voornamelijk popmuziek draaide. Dit alles zorgde voor de ideale omgeving voor Karel om zich te ontwikkelen tot de pianist die hij vandaag de dag is. Karel leerde piano spelen door te luisteren, niet d.m.v. onderwijs. Net de twintig gepasseerd realiseerde hij zich dat hij professioneel musicus wilde worden.
In 1983 studeerde hij aan het Koninklijk conservatorium in Den Haag. Sindsdien speelde Karel met Toon Roos, Martijn van Iterson, Peter Tiehuis, Ferdinand Povel, Theo de Jong, Jesse van Ruller, Simone Pormes, Toots Thielemans, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Roberta Gambarini, Lo van Gorp, Hein van de Geyn, Martijn Vink, Gino Vannelli, Joris Roelofs, Ben Herman, Philip Catherine, Hans van Oosterhout, Frans van der Hoeven,Tom Beek, Fay Claassen, Peter Erskine en vele anderen. Met de meesten van hen nam hij albums op. Voor het japanse label ‘Keystone Records’ nam hij de afgelopen jaren als het Karel Boehlee trio maar liefst acht CD’s op samen met Hein van de Geyn en Hans van Oosterhout. Onlangs toerden zij door Japan en Korea. In de planning ligt een CD-opname waarop ook meer funky eigen werk zal komen te staan.
Simone Pormes:
As a very young girl of four years old I loved to listen to Roberta Flack’s album ‘Killing me softly’ and decided I wanted to become a singer. The pureness and honesty in her music and voice felt like magic to me. Five years later in 1979, listening to Steve Gadd’s drumtrack on Rickie Lee Jones’ “Chuck E’s in love” I suddenly dreamed of being a drummer. I already found my affinity with playing drums for about three years. Six years old I was when I got my first lesson. It was my brother, who was eighteen at the time, who tought me how to hold the sticks and how to play some simple rhythms. At the age of eleven, still playing drums, my youngest brother started to play bassguitar. We sort of formed a two-man’s band, performing for the kids in the street who stood there in front of our house, staring through the window, asking for more. I started to sing while playing drums because we were in desperate need of a singer..
At that time I became more attracted to singing than playing drums and I started to sing in several schoolbands. At the age of seventeen I had my first gig with Karel Boehlee, really being somebody in the scene, he made me feel so nervous that I totally messed up. Now, after more than twenty years, we’re still making music together so probably it wasn’t that bad at all.
What else…
In 1989, I joined the group “Girlstreet”, produced by Jochem Fluitsma en Eric van Tijn and did several commercials. In 1993 I wrote the titletrack of the feature-movie “Angie”.
During the following years I regularly performed as a freelance background-vocalist in the bands of Trijntje Oosterhuis, Marco Borsato, Berget Lewis etc., was in the organisation of the most special concert I have ever experienced: “Samen voor de Molukken-2001” and wrote a few tracks for Edsilia Rombley’s debute album. Recently I performed as a backing vocalist with the Metropole Orchestra and Trijntje Oosterhuis singing Burt Bacharach songs (DVD-recordings) and the great Al Jarreau concert during “The Hague Jazz”. In June 2012 the CD “Al Jarreau and the Metropole Orchestra Live” was released on Concord Records. Conducted by Vince Mendoza and with me as one of the backingvocalists :)! Check out some video’s in the “Simone Backing Vocalist”-section!
Now with the foundation of Storybook Music Publishing and two beautiful album-releases followed by the release of our live-DVD, all I want for the future is the possibility to compose and perform songs that are recognizable by their pureness and honesty.
