Re: [Harp-L] YouTube - AFTER YOU'VE GONE-- shtreiml



Splendidly put Richard:
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The challenge, which few master, is being able to play fast with a tone that makes the hair stand up on your arms. A number of jazz horn players have that ability; relatively few harp players do. Brendan Power does that to me sometimes too, especially when he's using that amazingly wide vibrato that seems to turn the harp into a twisting snake. When he turns that vibrato on, Brendan reminds me of the early-jazz clarinetist Sidney Bechet--blues roots, jazz sensibility, a big shaking vibrato that gets all your attention from the first note.


Regards, Richard Hunter
latest mp3s and harmonica blog at http://myspace.com/richardhunterharp

To which I would add that many great jazz horn players are immediately recognisable from their tone and voicing, which gives a unique sound. To my ear, there are few such harmonica players as yet. I have a lot of harmonica players on my ipod shuffle. Out of interest the living people whose sound is immediately recognisable by me when I am not expecting them include

Richard Hunter
Winslow Yerxa
Brendan Power
Frasier Speirs (add to list of current UK harmonica players that we around last week - Rab Noakes and Frasier Speirs "Lights back on" is the best place to start in my view)
Jason Ricci - although for him it is not really tone I recognise, cos it is very varied, as much as some of the long, intricate licks that nobody else does much.


There are a lot of other incredibly good players who don't have a completely personal sound I can recognise from a few notes.

Richard Hammersley
Grantshouse, Scottish Borders
http://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Hammersley
http://www.myspace.com/rhammersley
http://www.myspace.com/magpiesittingdown







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