Tibor Grasser leaning on a red grand piano

Vienna · since 1990

Jazz, blues and boogie woogie.

Pianist from Vienna. Blues, boogie woogie and jazz aren’t three separate boxes to me — they’re one music. The left hand changes dialect; the right hand goes on speaking the same language.

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Tibor Grasser

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From the YouTube channel

Recordings from concerts. Thumbnails only load a video from YouTube once you click.

Flip, Flop and Fly by Big Joe Turner played by Tibor Grasser sung by Henning Pertiet

Les Flots Du Danube My stride piano rendition of the famous 'Donauwellen Walzer'

Bei mir bist Du schoen The well-known classic, performed as a stride piano piece

Recordings

CDs

Great Boogie Woogie News

1995 · Document Records

First CD — four pianists, mostly live, including recordings from Jazzland in Vienna. Booklet notes by Axel Zwingenberger.

Kansas City Bounce

1998 · Document Records

Second CD. More than half solo piano, the rest with Daniel Gugolz and Peter Müller. Booklet notes by Larry Cohn.

Press

To listen to him is to express disbelief at the fact that this young European, operating in genres generally referred to as uniquely American, is as good or perhaps even better than the best that America has been able to offer. Larry Cohn (Sony Music) — Booklet, Kansas City Bounce