[Harp-L] Jelly Roll Johnson

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

Jelly Roll plays with an absence of ego - (a rarity these days). Absence of  
ego = musical magic.
 
The Iceman
 
 
In a message dated 6/9/2008 3:44:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
orupert@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Jelly is  a master.

Quite often becoming a master involves a process of addition:  whereby 
more techniques, skills, qualities, experiences etc. are  accumulated and 
added, enhancing the doer. A lot can be accomplished this  way.

Another way involves subtraction: whereby the work is still done,  the 
materials and techniques learned, and rather than adding, they serve  to 
subtract, or remove any blocks, difficulties, preferences etc. so that  
the material, the song, the music, the feeling -- can emerge pure.  
Jelly's not a harmonica player, but a human being, who witnesses what  
that means and enables that to breathe through this tiny instrument-  
bending, swooping, wistfully twisting, pausing and fluttering....all  
without a hint of  pretense.

http://www.jellyrolljohnson.com/

-- 
Rupert  Oysler
www.seydelusa.com





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