Re: [Harp-L] Mystery Harp Player

["Tim Moyer" <wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Others have correctly identified your mystery man as William Galison.  
Although William is primarily a chromatic player he does great things 
with diatonic as well.  He floored me at SPAH2002 in Columbus at the 
blues jam with an amazingly fluid 4th position minor solo.  William 
also was the guitarist in the band that backed banquet headliner 
Frederick Yonnet, and at one point, when Fred wanted William to 
accompany him on a tune, our beloved Doug Tate walked up from the 
audience and handed William his own Rennaisance to play.  What a 
delightful evening!

http://www.williamgalison.com/

William is the inventor of the Moon Watch, which is described on this 
site: http://www.moonwatch.com/

-tim

Jason Rosenblatt wrote:
> I was in the studio yesterday when the engineer, who is also a  
> upright bass player, mentioned that he did some gigs a while back 
> with an amazing "diatonic" harmonica player who was able to cover 
> the jazz idiom left and right. (Be Bop, Coltrane, Standards, 
> convincing solos etc.)
> 
> This harmonica player is from New York, is apparently a 
> watchmaker, played on Bagdad Cafe soundtrack and is not Howard 
> Levy. Does anyone know who this guy is and whether or not he is in 
> fact a diatonic player who can play convincing jazz on that 
> particular instrument?