Re: Dying artform was Re: Jazz on diatonic

["Scorcher" <s_c_o_r_c_h_e_r@xxxxxxx>]

> > > "IronMan Mike Curtis" wrote:
> >
> > > There's not much demand for jazz harmonica, though.

> >  to which Tim responds:

> > Please don't tell folks like Toots Thielemans and Mike Turk and
> > Charlie Leighton and William Galliston and Michael Polesky and
Carlos
> > del Junco and Howard Levy and Clint Hoover and Hendrik Meurkens
and
> > Richard Hunter and...
>
> Mike's come back:
>
> Of course there are the select few.  There always will be.  But
relatively
> speaking, there's not much demand.
<SNIP>

My $.02:

Do the Fans of Blink 182, Nora Cole, John Mayer, or Charlie Hunter
know who Levy, Power, del Junco are?

How about Stevie Wonder?
(Aha! a name we ALL recognize!)
Now there is a virtuoso who integrated harmonica into his music in a
way NO ONE had before.

I'd LOVE to see that happen again (& again!)

- -Scorcher