Re: [Harp-L] Re: [HarpTalk] World Harmonica Festival report

[Jorge Simonian <jorgesimonian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Winslow, is there a video of Marcin performance?

Jorge Simonian

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> El 09/12/2013, a las 13:36, Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> escribiÃ:
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> Marcos has put his finger on a structural problem with the competitions. To avoid an endless list of categories, the organizers swept divergent styles with different criteria and traditions into single categories: jazz in with melody, and also blues in with folk. A virtuosic jazz performance can often overshadow a simple melody that is played with finesse and refinement. That said, for me personally, Marcin was the most musically satisfying of all the competitors, and I hope to hear more of him.
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> Winslow
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> From: marcos coll <marcos_coll@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Hi Boris,as you are wonderin......The cathegory is called.....Jazz AND MELODYand Greg did two melodys......from legendary JAZZ  icon composers duke Ellington and Django Reinhart.....As you was also a contestant ,a  little respect to the winner would be nice.......best wishes
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>> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 16:58:11 +0400
>> From: Boris Plotnikov <ploboris@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: [HarpTalk] World Harmonica Festival report
>> To: Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
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>> Actually I was wondered about this guy win jazz contest. His performance
>> was ok, but too far from jazz playing in phrasing. For my taste Marcin had
>> to be a winner instead of Greg.
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>> 2013/12/7 Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>> Winslow Yerxa wrote:
>>> <The competition performance given by first-place winner Greg Miller in
>>> the solo diatonic jazz category is this one:
>>> <
>>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNSUndNou3E
>>> 
>>> Very interesting.  Writing this from a train with no Youtube access; is
>>> that the same Greg Miller who won the NHL's Harmonica Player of the Year
>>> award in 2010?  I met him at a jam session at Ain't Nothin' But the Blues
>>> in London a few months ago (as described at
>>> http://www.hunterharp.com/two-days-three-jams-in-london/#more-1297).  He
>>> was playing straight-up Chicago blues at the time; not a hint of jazz in
>>> his tone or his lines.  Don't that beat all. Some guys just don't show you
>>> everything they've got on one tune...
>>> 
>>> Regards, Richard Hunter
>>> 
>>> author, "Jazz Harp" (Oak Publications, NYC)
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>> -- 
>> Thanks, Boris Plotnikov
>> http://borisplotnikov.ru
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