Re: [Harp-L] Stevie Wonder - All Blues

[Jp Pagán <jplpagan@xxxxxxx>]

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jonathan Metts  
<prairiedogpr@...> wrote:
>
> I didn't know Stevie was playing this Mile Davis song in concert.  
With
> the slow, deep bends, it seems better suited for diatonic, but of  
course
> he sounds great as always with his chromatic.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e5Q9jT3z9w
>

Thanks for that Jonathan. I've been waiting on Stevie to release the  
chromatic jazz album he's claimed to be working on. It's been a couple  
years now though. Maybe this is a taste? He certainly has been playing  
alot of harmonica in public lately.
Anyway... as to this particular tune. I like it, though I think he's  
made it very "Stevie," which I have mixed feelings about. The use of  
the chromatic for the head though doesn't bother me (coulda been mic'd  
better maybe?). Not sure I agree with you about the bends. They don't  
seem all that deep to me on the Kind of Blue recording. Maybe I'm just  
missing it though. I have heard diatonics play this, and, as another  
poster pointed out, I think there were some glaring—and I'm gonna  
guess inescapable—timbre issues.

Anyway... good to Stevie puttin' the harp out there. Give us more,  
Harmonica Man!!

-Jp