Re: [Harp-L] Obit.: Gabriel Labbe

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Labbé mostly played Hohner double-sided Echo tremolo harps, and sometimes the tremolo version of the Golden Melody.
Most of his CDs can be obtained through Thirty below (Trente sous zéro) in Québec:

http://www.trentesouszero.com/034-36.html

I especially like the cassette album Harmonica diatonique (completely different album from the CD of the same name) and the Hommage à Montmarquette CD.

Labbé also made a fine LP for Folkways (now Smithsonian Folkways) accompanied on piano by the great Québécois folk accordionist (!) Philippe Bruneau:

http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=122

Strangely, Labbé's harmonica playing on this album is used by accordionists as a model of clarity and simplicity.

Winslow

Emile D'Amico <edamico@xxxxxxx> wrote: I really like his playing. What kind of harmonica's did
he play?
Emile Diggs D'Amico

>>> James Thurgood  03/16/08 11:57 AM >>>
The Quebec harmonica-player and folklorist Gabriel
Labbe passed away on March 14.  Labbe was a major foce
in the Quebec traditional music scene.  Here's a link
to some recordings and Youtube clips: 
http://www.jeanlouislabbe.com/Gabriel/musique_gabriel.htm

- thurg


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