Re: [Harp-L] Re: future harmonicas and all that

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 5/26/2007 10:10:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Foomcorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Is the  harmonica more essential than the others?  Gee, I wouldn't say   
that.  I don't think it's a valid question, anyway.  Was it part  of  
the early development and therefore is inextricably woven into  it?   
Yes indeed.  More essential?  Essential?   Less essential?  Don't  
think it's a valid  question.


This is a good point.
 
Would you consider acoustic piano as essential to jazz  
trio/quartet/quintets? Even though you will mostly find it included, Gerry  Mulligan had a 
"piano-less quartet" in his early days with Chet Baker. The very  novelty of 
"piano-less" made this a focal point - almost a publicity coup at the  time. It is 
still referred to as Gerry's Piano-less Quartet. The point is, Gerry  heard in his 
head a new sound that didn't include piano during an era when piano  was 
central to the jazz idiom. 
 
The artist is free to conjure whatever into reality through their  
imagination and force of will. 
 
The Iceman



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