RE: [Harp-L] redefining an instrument

["Anthony Smith" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I will try to make the trek to see this man while he is still going.  Long way from Florida but it would be one fun little weekend trip!!!


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From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of IcemanLE@xxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [Harp-L] redefining an instrument

Years ago, Steve James took me to a little club in San Antonio to hear this  band.....I'd never heard anything like it. This is awesome music and should be  experienced live. You won't believe the amp set up - like a stack of Marshalls -  however, it wasn't TOO loud, but definitely filled the air with pulsating sound  waves.
 
 
In a message dated 6/3/2009 9:41:36 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Went to  the link, read the write up and thank you so much for sharing, I will be in  line to buy the CD once complete!! I didn't know what you meant about not  being a harmonica story but only if I could play my harmonica that way...fabuloso, magnifico!!!  My wife is  Spanish...

:O)




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From:  harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of  Mick Zaklan
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 7:38 AM
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Subject: [Harp-L] redefining an  instrument

Though he has his detractors, I think few would  argue that Howard Levy has changed the way the diatonic harmonica is  played.  Radically expanding technique and adding a slew of new  repertoire.  Guys like that don't come along very often.  If you  do a lot of reading about music, as I have, you run across basically the  same list of names and it's a short list.  But every instrument seems  to have a guy or two who have come out of nowhere to shake things  up.
I only bring this up because I was driving my route  yesterday, happily listening to NPR (National Public Radio), when I was  intrigued to hear that the much-maligned Hohner Company may actually have a  second such innovator on it's roster of endorsers.  A cat by the name  of Steve  Jordan:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104845790.   You can
either read the story or click on the audio and hear some of  Steve's playing in the background.  This is not a harmonica story, by  the way.

Mick  Zaklan
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