Re: [Harp-L] Blues Birdhead WAS is it my ears or does the chromatic sound different?

[Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah...Jazz Gillum falls into this category too, or at least some of his
stuff. It's a bit like the difference between cats like Blind Blake, Leroy
Carr and Scrapper Blackwell, Casey Bill Weldon, and all those urban and
'urbane' blues guys and, on the other hand, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton,
Son House,et al, who represent a more primitive country sound. Rhythm
Willie, Blues Birdhead and Jazz Gillum tended towards the jazzier, urban
sound. That music seemed to disappear after the 'thirties, and the country
sound took over, even when it moved to Chicago and got amplified. Since the
white audience took over the blues, it has melded with rock, and most
people tend towards the amplified rock/blues thing, which has it's roots in
the 'primitive' country sound, rather than the slick city sounds.
RD

On 4 June 2013 23:44, Joel Fritz <williemctell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've only heard a couple of tunes by BB, but they're great.  He's often
> credited with the first overblow on a recording.  He's not as clean
> sounding as Rhythm Willie, although that's not a criticism, but he's an
> excellent soloist.  Jazz Gillum also made a few records in this vein, a big
> departure from his others.
>
>
> On 6/3/2013 7:57 AM, Richard Hunter wrote:
>
>> Robert Rowe wrote:
>>
>>> In case you, like me, had never heard of Blues Birdhead or James Simon...
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=hzvjZPHYfyU<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzvjZPHYfyU>
>>>
>> Holy smokes, is that great stuff.  A fully formed jazz harmonica
>> conception on the diatonic in 1929!  BB obviously spent some time schooling
>> on Armstrong and Bechet.  I am going to study this piece very carefully.
>>
>> regards, Richard Hunter
>>
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>
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