Re: Subject: [Harp-L] big harmonicas

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

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_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j860WrrrRMM&list=PL4FDC75765E49D0E4) 
 
 
Phil Caltabellotta: Over The Rainbow
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mU363kCgtU&playnext=1&list=PLA3331C07720EDF
ED&feature=results_video_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mU363kCgtU&playnext=1&list=PLA3331C07720EDFED&feature=results_video) 
 
Summertime: Joe Leone
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu8Jt7DKMOk_ 
(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_ 
(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_ 
(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_ 
(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_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoeWcruztq4) 
 
Rain:
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuDg9gM0upQ_ 
(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. 


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On  Jan 8, 2013, at 8:48 PM, Arthur Jennings <timeistight@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

> "not playing actual songs"? What are they then?
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> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:02 PM, <EGS1217@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> not playing actual songs
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> Arthur Jennings
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