RE: [Harp-L] My Favorite Larry Adler Recordings

[Patrice Rayon <stpat95@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The funny anecdote I read in a book written by one of the most famous harmonica player of the history in France, whom the name was Albert Raisner:

When Django Reinhardt met Larry Adler, he badly understood his name, that looks like a game of words in french:  "Le roi de l'air" which the translation in english in "The king of air" ...So Django Reinhardt kept to call Larry Adler : "Le roi de l'air" (the king of air)  

Patrice  Rayon
http://harmonica-world.over-blog.com/

> From: David Naiditch <davidnaiditch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] My Favorite Larry Adler Recordings
> When I was a kid, I played this version of Summertime so many times that I wore out the record.  I’m forever impressed how Larry Adler keeps changing his tone.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpnnBHYAhJs
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> In 1980, Larry Adler played Summertime with the violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI6wZNBLOY0
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> I also enjoy these recordings of Adler with the great Gypsy jazz guitarist, Django Reinhardt: 
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epq8siKTg1c
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViO_DUbAZak
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPHc-k_R0_A
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVNJkDdurk  
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> I recently recorded a Gypsy jazz CD, “Douce Ambiance: Gypsy Jazz Classics,” (listen at http://airplaydirect.com/music/davidnaiditch/) so I’m especially interested in these Gypsy jazz recordings.
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> When I was in Jr. High school, I took lessons from Sonny Terry.  John Pilgrim told the following Sonny Terry/Larry Adler  story in the Gardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2001/aug/09/guardianobituaries).
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>       “In 1975, I was backing the blues harmonica virtuoso Sonny Terry, and guitarist Brownie McGhee, in a show at the London School of Economics. A shadowy figure in the wings was trying to attract attention. Being blind, Sonny Terry couldn't see this, so I went over to see what the problem was.
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>      It was Larry Adler, surprisingly humble, wanting to sit in with Sonny Terry for a number. Sonny called him on and they played Careless Love, Adler's rich orthodox chording contrasting oddly with Terry's "crossed harp" a fourth above the key.
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>      They finished to cries for more, but Adler addressed the audience ruefully: ‘Sonny Terry was the only man to blow me off the stage in America. Now he's done it again. Twice is enough - you must listen to the man who does it best,’ and left the stage.”
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> David Naiditch
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> www.davidnaiditch.com