Re: [Harp-L] traveling with instruments (was PRX » Piece » NEA Jazz Master Toots Thielemans)



Rob - 

I remember a few years before that hanging out with Toots backstage at the Concord Jazz Festival. Toots introduced me to Ray Brown, who was standing next to his bass case, which looked like a refrigerator. String bass players are known to either buy a seat on the plane for their instruments, or hire instruments locally when they travel. But Ray had it all aced with this monstrous case to protect his ax, and was enthusiastic in talking it up. Toots seemed very interested, so the case you saw may have been an upshot of that conversation.

Harmonica content: Who is willing to check their harps in as luggage to avoid the hassle of schlepping, explaining to baggage screeners, etc., and who insists on keeping their harps in their possession the entire time?

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5

--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Rob Paparozzi <Chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Rob Paparozzi <Chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] PRX » Piece » NEA Jazz Master Toots Thielemans on Harmonicas and Audiences
To: "randy singer" <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 5:38 AM

Hey Randy,

Thanx for the cool link!....funny Toots mentions the portability of the Harmonica,-)

But when I ran into him years back at JFK airport en route to Michalek's Jazz Summit in MN, he had a hard shell road case for his Gibson ES-175....it was the size of a Coffin!!!!,-) He told me he bought it because of the way the airlines just couldn't be trusted and I totally agree w/ him!

Peace, Rob Paparozzi

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