Re: Subject: [Harp-L] big harmonicas

[Arthur Jennings <timeistight@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scotty,

I guess they all sing to me.

(Sorry about misnaming you. Gmail likes to do that for some reason.)


On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:31 PM, <EGS1217@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> **
> Arthur: I'M EGS (and the 'Scotty' Gary referred to (it's my nickname which
> I use on Slidemeister), but have no idea who 'lachlan hunt' is?
>
>
> I wrote that post.
>
>
>  Gary's dead on. 'not playing actual songs' refers to the practice by
> many basically blues-playing diatonic players in using chromatics for
> 'chording' or 'vamping'. They're not playing SONGS, meaning recognizable
> tunes on the chromatic, but riffing, playing accompaniment, doing
> 'whatever'. That's what I meant by not playing songs.
>
>
>  Like Gary, I'm not all that particularly fond of 'that sound' either, on
> a chromatic. It's perfectly fine within its own context and there are quite
> a few great players I even like well enough using chromatics in that way,
> but diatonics have their own unique beauty and chromatics theirs and I
> personally prefer (emphasis on the PREFER) chromatics being used for actual
> full tunes as Gary described them (including jazz improv).
>
> Just my own humble opinion and .02 cents, after all?
>
>
> But perhaps we have different definitions of what playing a song is or is
> not which caused your reaction, so you tell me which of the following
> people are playing 'songs' on the chromatic if you don't mind--then perhaps
> we can come to some sort of consensus - or at least meet in the middle
> somewhere?
>
>
> Chromatic for the Blues Diatonic Player (Jason Ricci):
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j860WrrrRMM&list=PL4FDC75765E49D0E4
>
>
> Phil Caltabellotta: Over The Rainbow
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mU363kCgtU&playnext=1&list=PLA3331C07720EDFED&feature=results_video
>
> Summertime: Joe Leone
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu8Jt7DKMOk
>
>
> In all fairness I should specify that those three players are all very
> good friends of mine whom I love and consider my mentors. I can't play a
> fraction as well as any of them.
>
>
> Paul Delay
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk6H8dIWoJU&feature=player_embedded#!
>
>  Stevie Wonder with Burt Bacharach from 1973:
> Alfie
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZyB8PPDDAA
>
>  Then: Alfie--Gershwin award to Burt Bacharach/Hal David: PBS: 2012.
>  BRILLIANT playing --wait till 2:26 or thereabouts for the harmonica, but
> worth waiting for if you want to see a closeup of Stevie playing that
> 'pizzicato' style he's famous for 39 tears after the previous clip. (The
> award to both Bacharach and Hal David's wife is given afterwards by the
> President, with Bacharach speaking briefly)...this clip is from the PBS
> special:
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M73cwg_KeA
>
>
> Here's another whom I admire (and also aspire to play even a fraction as
> well as.) I'm throwing her tracks in purely because they're gorgeous and I
> love her playing:
>
> Michal Adler: Night Time
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoeWcruztq4
>
> Rain:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuDg9gM0upQ
>
> Elizabeth
>
>
> Gary Lehman:
> "
> "I believe Scotty refers to non blues material--classical, jazz standards,
> melodic pop tunes, show tunes, religious music, patriotic favorites, etc.
> I must confess that I don't care for 3rd position chromatic meditations,
> but they are all the rage among blues players.
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 8, 2013, at 8:48 PM, Arthur Jennings <timeistight@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "not playing actual songs"? What are they then?
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:02 PM, <EGS1217@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> not playing actual songs
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Arthur Jennings
> > http://www.timeistight.com
>
>
>



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