[Harp-L] Jazz Fusion on Diatonic

["Ben FELTEN [ML]" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jazz Fusion in the styles of Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report or 
Alan Holdsworth is certainly not the first genre you'd associate with 
diatonic harmonica, and some might even say that it's not achievable to 
convincingly play in that style. I might even have been amongst those 
doubters a few months ago, at least until Seb Charlier invited me to 
attend a part of the mixing of his latest album, Precious Time. The 
album is to be released soon, and Sébastien has edited and shared a 
video that highlights the musicians contributing to the project and 
features some of the music. I've blogged about it here: 
http://www.musicalramblings.com/2009/08/seb-charliers-precious-time.html. 
In all instances but one (at the very end), if you find yourself 
wondering "is this harmonica?", it is.

I can imagine that some will say that the sound of the harmonica is 
drowned by the effects used, but I think it remains characterisc and 
distinguishable.

I'd be interested to hear what people who might be customers for this 
kind of music think...

Benoit