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TOM BELL FACE TO FACE Independent Was not sure what to expect from this CD with it’s very plain cover image of the artist sitting and smiling at you from his arm chair as if going to conduct a seminar. Well in a way that is what he does BUT he uses his piano to do...

Face To Face Works by Bell, Chopin, Lux Lewis, Beethoven and Pinetop Smith Tom Bell (pf) www.tombellpiano.co.uk, 45 mins **** “An intriguing disc which at first glance looks like it shouldn’t work, but does. Boogie-woogie and blues (by Bell and others) are...

“A versatile and unique performer choosing, unusually, to combine classical pieces and boogie piano in the same album. Equally at home in both, his lightness of touch gives a most pleasurable experience for the discerning listener” – The...

This is the first time I have been asked to review a music CD and what a CD this is. Tom Bell is only in his twenties, but he has already made a name for himself as an outstanding pianist and is often described as “a young Jools Holland”. He is a very accomplished...

Album Review: Face To Face Tom Bell Face To Face Tom Bell 2016 / Tom Bell 45 minutes Review by Kathy Parsons: www.mainlypiano.com I’ve reviewed more than 1900 albums in the last eighteen or nineteen years, and I have to say that I’ve never heard one quite like Tom...

FACE TO FACE  Tom Bell (pn)  TOM BELL NO NUMBER (44:47) BELL Bell’s Boogie. “F” Boogie. Sunday Morning Blues. Friday’s Groove CHOPIN Etudes: C, op. 10/1; c, op. 25/12. Ballade No. 4 LUX LEWIS (arr. Bell) Honky Tonk Train Blues BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 14 in c#:...