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Robert 'Bob' Hall (born 13 June 1942) is an English boogie-woogie pianist. A long-time collaborator of Alexis Korner, he also performed regularly with bottleneck bluesman Dave Kelly and his sister, Jo Ann Kelly.

Career

Founder member of several British blues bands including The Groundhogs, Tramp, The Sunflower Blues Band and The De Luxe Blues Band, Hall has worked and recorded with artists such as Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac, and is also a long serving member of Savoy Brown, and guests with The Blues Band, featuring Paul Jones, Dave Kelly and Tom McGuinness.

Hall was also a founder-member, with Ian Stewart, of the Boogie Woogie Big Band which later became Rocket 88, and which included Hal Singer, Don Weller and Dick Morrissey among many leading jazzmen, together with Charlie Watts, Alexis Korner, and Jack Bruce.

As a sideman, he has accompanied such blues names as John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Witherspoon, Chuck Berry, Homesick James, Lightnin' Slim, Lowell Fulsom, Charlie Musselwhite, Snooky Pryor, J. B. Hutto, Lazy Lester, Dave Peabody, Baby Boy Warren, Eddie "Guitar" Burns, Eddie Taylor, Big John Wrencher, Mickey Baker, and Eddy Clearwater.

An acknowledged authority on blues and boogie woogie piano, Hall has contributed to a number of magazines and books and is the sleeve-note writer for the Yazoo Records piano blues series. He has worked on the piano sections of The Routledge Encyclopaedia of the Blues.

References

1. ^ "Bob Hall biography". Boogie.demon.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 August 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
2. with a feeling: the Little Walter story by Tony Glover, Scott Dirks, Ward Gaines. Routledge, 2002 ISBN 0-415-93711-6 at Google Books

• 1942 births
• Living people
• Boogie-woogie pianists
• British blues pianists
• English blues musicians
• People from West Byfleet
• The Groundhogs members
• Savoy Brown members
• 21st-century English pianists
• Tramp (band) members