[Harp-L] Jason Ricci
David Payne
Jason called me last night and I mentioned that I was coaching my son's Little League Baseball team (7&8 year olds). I had really wanted to sponsor the team with Elk River Harmonicas, but I didn't have the $$$. Jason, without me asking, jumped right in and said he wanted to sponsor the team. So, in the end, Jason Ricci/New Blood and Brady Mills Graphics are co-sponsors of the team. Times are tight with all of us, I know, and the act of benevolence says a lot about Jason and our harmonica community as a whole. Involvement with children is how we keep our instrument alive, after all.
Here is the league...
http://www.godbeysports.com/
I'm not trying to start any baseball discussion here and if anybody wants to talk ball, write me offlist, please. I just want to recognize one of our own for something he did I thought was special.
Dave
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It is nice to hear such a selfless story ! It gives me hope for humanity. I'm sure that this team will be the best harmonica playing team there is !
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that in a decade his name would be emblazoned on the jersey of a West
Virginia little league baseball team as a corporate sponsor. It's both
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On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:54 AM, harp-l-...@harp-l.org wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:38:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Payne <dmat...@elkriverharmonicas.com>
> Subject: [Harp-L] Jason Ricci
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> I just wanted to say something about what a standup guy our friendly
> neighborhood harmonica virtuoso Jason Ricci is.
> Jason called me last night and I mentioned that I was coaching my
> son's Little League Baseball team (7&8 year olds). I had really
> wanted to sponsor the team with Elk River Harmonicas, but I didn't
> have the $$$. Jason, without me asking, jumped right in and said he
> wanted to sponsor the team. So, in the end, Jason Ricci/New Blood
> and Brady Mills Graphics are co-sponsors of the team. Times are
> tight with all of us, I know, and the act of benevolence says a lot
> about Jason and our harmonica community as a whole. Involvement with
> children is how we keep our instrument alive, after all.
> Here is the league...
> http://www.godbeysports.com/
>
> I'm not trying to start any baseball discussion here and if anybody
> wants to talk ball, write me offlist, please. I just want to
> recognize one of our own for something he did I thought was special.
>
> Dave
Michael Easton
www.harmonicarepair.com
B Boggs
Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:38:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Payne <dmat...@elkriverharmonicas.com>
Subject: [Harp-L] Jason Ricci
To: har...@harp-l.org
I just wanted to say something about what a standup guy our friendly neighborhood harmonica virtuoso Jason Ricci is.
Jason called me last night and I mentioned that I was coaching my son's Little League Baseball team (7&8 year olds). I had really wanted to sponsor the team with Elk River Harmonicas, but I didn't have the $$$. Jason, without me asking, jumped right in and said he wanted to sponsor the team. So, in the end, Jason Ricci/New Blood and Brady Mills Graphics are co-sponsors of the team. Times are tight with all of us, I know, and the act of benevolence says a lot about Jason and our harmonica community as a whole. Involvement with children is how we keep our instrument alive, after all.
Here is the league...
http://www.godbeysports.com/
I'm not trying to start any baseball discussion here and if anybody wants to talk ball, write me offlist, please. I just want to recognize one of our own for something he did I thought was special.
Dave
sam blancato
thread said Jason makes some acknowledgement of the old dead guys. My
experience of his playing is that the old, dead guys are very much present
in his playing all the time. And that's saying a lot because, as most of
you know, Ricci ventures pretty far away from the classic blues cannon in
much of what he's playing now.
I've seen Ricci five times. The first time was about six years ago at a
little joint in Youngstown, Ohio called Johnny's. He played a lot of
straight out blues then as well as other stuff. After that, I caught him
here, in Pittsburgh, and his set-list has gone farther and farther away from
the straight out blues stuff and more toward the jazz and rock and jam band
stuff. But there is still a lot of the 'old guys' in his sound.
The third time I saw him I think there were maybe 15 people on the club and
I got a chance to shoot the breeze with Jason and his detailed knowledge of
classic recordings just killed me. We stared talking about LW's "Blue
Light". I had brought it up because I was going to talk about the
reverb/distortion break up in the song that sounds so cool and before I even
got that out he said something like "yeah there's that one something,
something draw where the reverb gets ahead of it all and starts breaking
up..." That kind of thing, when somebody is on the same letter of the same
word of the same paragraph of the same page, just kills me. I honestly felt
like we could have talked about harp for the next 3 hours and he wouldn't
have tired of it.
There are many great professional harp players who obviously love the
harmonica like Jason does but it's rare that you come across any who wear it
on their sleeve like Jason does.
I have to say here that a lot of what he's playing right now (Rocket #9)
doesn't really speak to me like his older stuff. Even so, I can still put
#9 on and marvel at the playing.
Sam Blancato, Pittsburgh
Rick Dempster
hearing what they have managed to do with single reed bends (read 'overblows/draws) has inspired me to push on with my long standing,
but limited use of this technique.
Likewise, or perhaps I should say, in particular, Chris Michalek's stuff that he has posted; but then I find Michalek's taste a little closer to my own that the aforementioned,
most excellent players.
RD
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