Re: [Harp-L] Stunning "Chicken" from Philip Achille

[Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow that's nice. Haven't heard of him before. Great version of 'Body &
Soul' there too:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBe41M-HGXc
Don't quite know why he says that the tune is in a key unfriendly to the
harmonica. I'd much rather
play in Db major on the chrom than B,E or A. It is possible of course that
he knows more about the instrument than your's truly
RD

On 6 February 2013 20:51, Brendan Power <bren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Philip Achille is a young English jazz and classical chromatic player who
> always blows me away with his chops, taste and groove. Check out this live
> version of The Chicken:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1mlZaX9FZlM>
> &v=1mlZaX9FZlM
>
> Philip's seamless switching between octaves and single notes is
> particularly
> cool, and his tasty use of outside notes on the chord changes adds a nice
> jazz edge to the funk groove.
>
> Philip is similar to Spain's brilliant Antonio Serrano: chrom players who
> started with classical playing and then switched to jazz, using their
> high-level chops to create new sounds in a field so long defined by Toots
> Thielemans. It's refreshing, and exciting!
>
>
>
> Thanks to Abe Thomas for making me aware of this vid.
>
>
>
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