[Harp-L] Re: harp movies

[Jonathan Metts <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The anime series "Cowboy Bebop" has harmonica music throughout, but one 
episode is specifically about a harmonica player and features some great 
blues harmonica.  The episode is called "Sympathy for the Devil" -- yes, 
there are tons of references to Western blues/jazz/rock throughout the 
series.  I believe most of the harmonica music for this series is by a 
Japanese band called The Seatbelts.

Bound For Glory is a biographical film about Woody Guthrie and contains 
quite a bit of David Carradine (as Guthrie) playing harmonica.  It's 
quite good if you like folk-style playing.

I haven't seen the movie adaptation, which is apparently very dark and 
very good for a Disney production, but Ray Bradbury's book, Something 
Wicked This Way Comes, features a harmonica as an important story element.

In the film Manhattan, Woody Allen's character receives a harmonica as a 
gift, remarking that he always wanted one.  You can hear him play it 
just a little bit through the rest of the movie.  It's too bad he never 
took it up like he did the clarinet!

Jonathan Metts