[Harp-L] Subject: (was Toots called Howard a name), now Passing the torch: Yvonnick Prene
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- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:10:57 -0400 (EDT)
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Oh Wow, Smokey--why didn't you ever tell me about this guy?
I LOVE what I'm hearing here:
http://www.yvonnickprene.com/live/
and if I didn't know it was him, I'd have sworn it was Toots.
BTW, he's come to New York--and even taught a class this past Spring!
Very cool indeed, and he's cute! ;)
Now I'm off to find some videos of his.....
Elizabeth
"Message: 9
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:56:31 -0400
From: Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Toots called Howard a name
To: Chuck Dean <cadean329@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Harp L Harp L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Yes, I realized that after I sent it. But I didn't correct it at the time
because I didn't think it was worth the band width.
Toots was 18 when Belgium was invaded. A..He was undraftable because he
was asmatic. B.. It was all moot as Belguim surrendered in 28 hours.
I had 2 uncles fighting in Belgium in 44 (and a father in Italy). One was
the same age as Jean Batiste ( & wounded), and the other a year younger ( &
killed). So, yes you are correct.
That would make Toots about 91. I just lost the uncle that was his age.
As for his best work, again, I think you are correct. 'Best' is hard to
quantify, but some of his stuff around the late 50s was so out into orbit in
terms of pushing the limits of 'rolling' the chord structure(s), that I
have a hard time imagining anyone who could even dream to come close. His
later stuff, while more mature and polished, is not in the same league. BUT,
having said that I have been watching one Yvonnic Prene for several years,
and in my (humility...and stomach churning illness, I must add), in this era
of talking about who or whom is going to inherit this one or that ones
crown, I see Prene as being deserving of a 'throne of his own', so to speak.
He is what I have I have been preaching for years. Namely becomming ONE
with your instrument, he has, just Like Wikus Van der Werwe 'melded' with a
Prawn in the movie District 9, Prene has become an entirely new breed of
human/harmonica.
Just my opinion.... smokey-joe"
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