RE: [Harp-L] Sugar popping Popper and Jason

["Anthony Smith" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pat was a great harp player and worked the Bradenton/Sarasota area long ago
with Greg Polous.  He always blew me away and I too think (from listening &
reading) Pat was a greater influence on JR than Sugar Blue.

I have a story about Pat that today seems funny but ticked me off many (15)
years ago.  I went to a Jam at the Gator Club in Downtown Sarasota.  Pat was
there too.  He played a bit and then I got up to play.  I had an OTB Special
20 in the key of F and played it during my set.  Afterwards, Pat told me my
tone was great (flattered) and asked if the harp was a custom to which I
replied no.  He asked if he could play it and I let him.  After a song or
two he skittered out with my F harp and I never saw him again! 

Looking back on it, he probably did me a favor and needless to say, harps
aren't for sharing!

:O) 


-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Bill Hines
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 10:52 AM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Sugar popping Popper and Jason

Jason has always talked about Pat Ramsey being an influence, I never heard
him mention Sugar Blue. Pat is one of the guys who was under-rated and flew
under the radar I think as far as that style of playing. But if you listen
to a lot of his work, including "Live at Big Bend" (title from memory) you
can hear a lot of the same types of amazing, fast and fluid types of runs
that Jason built his style on to some degree.


Bill Hines

Winslow Yerxa wrote:
> I think the Sugar Blue connection may be stronger with Popper than with
Ricci - and Popper obliquely acknowledges the connection; I don't recall
Jason having done so.
>
>   
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