RE: Bebop

["Chris Michalek" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that somewhere I have an unrealeased and
ultra rare session of Little Walter playing Charlie Parker heads. BTW
- - LW was a huge overblower and this tape would put all of those issue
to rest. Now if I could only find that tape :-)

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>---- Original Message ----
>From: awimhurst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: Bebop
>Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:58:00 +1000
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>>Actually, that's not true, regarding bebop. Lots of guys have
>absorbed 
>>and used bebop stylings - the two major players that spring to mind
>are 
>>Little Walter and Kim Wilson. Check out some of the phrasing on
>"Roller 
>>Coaster", "Mellow Down Easy" and others. Check out Wilson's 3rd 
>>position playing on the Smokin Joint CD (can't remember the track
>title 
>>but it's the looong one where his solo is sandwiched between solos
>by 
>>Kirk Fletcher and Troy Gonyea). The great thing is both Walter and 
>>Wilson play/ed this sort of phrasing without sacrificing their
>muscular 
>>tone, something that can't be said for those who favour overblowing.
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>>It's a matter of knowing where you can't go and working with what 
>>you've got - which is actually the same for any great
>instrumentalist, 
>>IMO.
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>>It's true, however, that diatonic players generally prefer to cop
>from 
>>riff-based swing players like Lester Young.
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>>For an easy introduction to bebop playing in which it's possible to
>cop 
>>some cool phrases, check out Cannonball Adderley's LP: "Julian 
>>'Cannonball' Adderley".
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>>Cheers
>>Andrew
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>>Chris wrote:
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>>> Its really hard to put this stuff in harmonica terms nobody except
>>> Howard Levy is capable enough to play jazz on the diatonic. The
>best
>>> example I can think of is Howard Levy (be-bop) vs Jeff Grossberg
>>> (hard bop)
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