Re: [Harp-L] Bluegrass chromatic harmonica David Naiditch

["Michael Polesky, MPA" <m.polesky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

David Naiditch is a friend of mine and I enjoy his CD very much.  I'll have 
to ask him whom he has studied with, but I do know that he is a very 
accomplished player.  He lives here in Southern California now and I just 
saw him a week ago.

I first got to know David about 2 years ago when we played together at a 
jazz jam at a place called Mort's Deli in Pacific Palisades, CA.  He played 
wonderfully and we have kept in touch ever since.

This is the first Bluegrass CD that I have ever owned, so I don't have a lot 
of experience with the genre, but I can vouch for the chromatic playing as 
excellent.  I don't know of any other chromatic player out there playing 
Bluegrass.  I think you can get the recording "High Desert Bluegrass 
Sessions" at CD Baby.  Enjoy it!

Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Payne" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Harp L Harp L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 5:14 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Bluegrass chromatic harmonica


O.K. I found a starting place. David Naiditch. His Web site says he took 
lessons from Sonny Terry and Cham Ber Huang, chromatic harmonica bluegrass. 
The stuff he's playing isn't really the stuff I'd be playing, I'm more into 
that embryonic Rock n' Roll stuff Bill Monroe was playing in the 1940s... I 
like to play bluegrass with some blues and a rock beat in it. The one 
exception of his stuff was "Lonesome Moonlight Waltz" I was really getting 
into that one.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=387735431

I'm gonna check to see if he's got a CD with a Jimmie Rodgers remake or 
something... On Lonesome Moonlight, that's pretty much what I envisioned 
myself learning to do, using the chromatic to mimic the mandolin, then with 
diatonic rhythm chops as rhythm.

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Dave Payne
Elk River Harmonicas
www.elkriverharmonicas.com
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