[Harp-L] Re : First Generation Vs. the current one

["Hurrican Ramón" <party_man1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hurricane sez : 

What perplexes me on this issue is that many consider a person who has fast blistering chops as the better player . 

¡ NOT , I repeat Not Not Not Speed only !

What about timing , nuance , space in between lightning chops ? 

In nutshell :

Bix Bierderbecke . 

If that  name doesn't sound familiar you have missed out on some of the most fanstastic Blues & Jazz ever played  by anyone on any instrument bar none ! 


Louis Armstrong said of Bix this : 

Direct quote ,

" All I've ever called the dear boy was Bix ... just the name alone will make one stand up ---- also their ears . And when he played ---- why , the ears did the same thing ..."

>From the Book :

Bix - 
Man & Legend

authored by

Richard M. Sudhalter & Philip R. Evans 
with Willaim Dean-Myatt

Publisher :

Quartet Books London

In this book many things are mentioned on style , one was a similar thing about the playerws who were lightning fast and just burning up the scene with their staccato arppegiated machine gun runs on the horn ( trumpet & cornet as Bix played cornet like Louis Armstrong did at first before Louis changed to the trumpet later to increase his " loundness  factor level when Bix was at his best ) and or other instruments .

Bottom line :

Read this book if your really into the Blues , it is  the " other side of the Blues coin " if you get my drift .

As far as  speed being the mitigating factor to decide who's who :

¡ ¡ BALDERDASH ! !

Plain and simply put .

Sincerely :

HR

Aka :

Party_Man1@xxxxxxxxxx

P.S. :

Stanley Clarke the great and fantastically fast P-bassman has a great story about Miles Davis . It goes something like this as Miles just picked up Stanley for a practice session along with anoth member of Miles band . 

Miles had just gotten a Lamborgini and was racing it madly aroundthe neighborhood in New York City  pulling broadies around every corner and when he did he said loudly to Stanley " ¡ SPACE ! " and scaring the daaaaaylights out of Stanley .

At the session once out of Miles sight and earshot Stanley asked the other musicina who road with them to  the studio . " What the heck did Miles mean with SPACE ? " 

The other seasoned player of the band laughed - - " he means you need to put some space in between those lghtning fast chops of yours "

So my fellow harpers , when comparing those other younger players ( I like them a lot too mind you ) consider what I just wrote if your really serious bout de Blues  . 

Dig poeple ? I hope so .

HR   

 




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