Re: [Harp-L] Re:Questions for Chromatic Players

["Bill" <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice one Robert

Do you play Chelsea Bridge?  That's another nice really atmospheric tune for the chrom as well that i've been working on, goes to E major on the bridge and works it's way to Am before going back in to the A section with a lovely little run.  i've been listening to a version with Cassandra Wilson scatting the vocal that's just beautiful.  

i guess i'm probably more familiar with the actual chelsea bridge than you, unless Billy Strayhorn had another one in mind.  There's a decisive scene in a great British film from the 60s called Victim between Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Sim - who is probably one of the most beautiful women that ever lived - where the bridge is in the background all in grainy black and white, which i find myself visualising when i play it.

i saw Gregoire Maret dueting the british Chrom player Adam Glasser on Giant Steps at the after gig friday night jam at Pizza express in london a couple of months back - amazing!

Bill 

Bill  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: robert mcgraw 
  To: bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 7:36 PM
  Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Re:Questions for Chromatic Players


  > Would anyone else agree that whilst playing different key chromatics has 
  > it's place, it's important to be able to play evenly in all 12 keys.
  ---Absolutely. Not sure I'll ever be able to play as well in E as in Ab, but with the way jazz tunes modulate, we must be able to get around in all 12 keys.  
  > Round Midnight's on the to do list - I 
  > think that will sound awesome on the chrm anyway
  -- We are in a similar place, i think, thoug I may have been working on chro a bit longer. I do this tune; it does sound great on harmonica, but the changes are tricky. When you get to it, let me know... a fellow harmonica player has given me a few tips on how to approach it that were very helpful.
   
   and in the distance are 
  > things like Joy Spring in the far distance, Giant Steps.
  --You and me both, bro!!!



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