[Harp-L] Accordian and harmonica idea

randysinger randy@xxxxx
Tue Mar 21 12:53:10 EDT 2017


As usual -another brilliant reply from Winslow!

I will look for links. 

www.randysinger.com

> On Mar 20, 2017, at 6:09 PM, Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa at xxxxx> wrote:
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> Toots has recorded with two accordionists. 
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> In about 1984 he recorded a trio of albums in Brazil with accordionist Sivuca and singer Sylvia Vrethammar; there was also a film about the project which you can see on Youtube.
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> In the mid-1990s he recorded a couple of tracks with French accordionist Richard Galliano on one of Galliano's albums.
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> Sometime in the 1950s or '60s Cham-Ber Huang recorded an album with legendary classical free-bass accordionist Mogens Ellegard.
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> And Richard Hayman recorded the album Harmonica Holiday "with harmonica choir" that included not only eight harmonicas (Hayman, Charlie Leighton, Eddy Manson, Cham-Ber Huang, Alan Pogson, Michael Chimes, Leonard Schwartz, and Blackie Schackner or Lou Mok) but also two accordions (Dominic Cortese and William Costa).
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> Winslow
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> Winslow Yerxa
> Producer, the Harmonica Collective
> Author, Harmonica For Dummies, Second Edition: ISBN 978-1-118-88076-0
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> ________________________________
> From: Randy Singer <randy at xxxxx>
> To: HarpL* <harp-l at xxxxx> 
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 4:05 AM
> Subject: [Harp-L] Accordian and harmonica idea
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> I can rarely recall if there have been any landmark albums featuring the accordian and chromatic harmonica. 
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> This is a project I wish I would have pursued….what a marriage in sound!
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> Has anyone done anything like this?
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPuF5mmEliI <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPuF5mmEliI>
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