RE: Dying artform

[Jeff Walenta <jeffwalenta@xxxxxxxxx>]

- --- scorcher <s_c_o_r_c_h_e_r@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Tim Moyer's reply:
> Re: Dying artform
> >
> >
> >
> > "Scorcher" wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Seems that now that the heyday of harmonicas is
<snip> Yup...
> I just met a player / collector that's really into
> the orchestral
> instruments, and playing with a harmonica "band" on
> a semi-casual basis.
> 
> What I'd really love to see (& participate in)is a
> "Harmonica-centric"
> band. -Not a harmonica band that excludes other
> instruments, not a
> "Big-Band", "Oldies" or other format that plays
> music that's not "popular"
> any more. One that features many different Harmonica
> sounds / textures with
> other instruments - strings, keys, even (gasp!)
> percussion!
> 
> I think that to promote the (other-than-blues)
> harmonica (in it's many
> varied forms) we need to integrate it into music
> that "folks want to hear".
> 
> Oh, sorry, starting to rant...;-)
> 
> BTW, what are some of the more "esoteric" musical
> genres y'all  play (or
> have seen)?
> I've seen / heard:
> 
> Blues (diatonic, chromatic, a little double-reed)
> Klezmer (diatonic, double-reed)
> Skiffle / Jug-band (diatonic)
> Country (diatonic)
> Western (diatonic)
> Bluegrass (diatonic)
> Old-time (diatonic)
> Classical (Chromatic)(Mr Bonfiglio!)
> Showtunes (diatonic, chromatic, a little
> double-reed)
> 
> -Scorcher
> 
> 
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i haven't heard much done live beyond blues ...i would
love to see what could be done with the harmonica in
avant garde/ free jazz 

seems to me it would work ...but maybe thats just me 

:)



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