Re: [Harp-L] Genius? LOL

["Bill" <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To me Howard doesn't just take the harmonica into places it's not been to 
before, he takes music there too, that's where the genius it comes in.  He's 
a monster musician, just like Bela Fleck and Victor Wooten and Glen Velez 
and Eugene Freisen are monsters on their own instruments and it's the 
ensemble sound created by the combination of those unique and special 
talents is what matters. It's not just harmonica played like nobody ever 
imagined it could be,  it's the instrumentation as a whole and the 
compositions and the arrangements and ultimately the definition of that 
infinitely indefinable and perenially evolving thing - jazz.

You need to seperate that out from the - this is what you can do on the 
harmonica side of Howard -  that's the scientist demonstrating his research 
findings and personally I'm very glad he does