Re: Subject: [Harp-L] Horses for courses and the Shaker Madcat microphone
Ray Beltran
> I see now what Greg Heumann means when he talks about mic distortion
> with tube amps.
Thanks,
Ray.
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Ansel Barnum
our humble instrument to places it's never before been taken. Howard's
technical mastery is alone impressive, but what's even more significant
is the beauty of his music, for what good is technique without feeling?
But he has both in spades. His playing is filled with melodic grace that
can soar in breathtaking passion one moment then turn into a witty joke
the next, or probe through a palpable idea before resolving into a
tender sigh. Many instruments have known their share of virtuosos. But
never has the harmonica encountered one so extraordinary until Howard
picked it up.
Ansel
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> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:24:00 -0400
> From: Randy Singer <ra...@randysinger.com>
> Subject: [Harp-L] Harmonica Virtuoso Howard Levy Releases New CD
> ?Tonight and Tomorrow? on Chicago Session
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> this is a great bio on our diatonic friend, champion, and
> iconoclastic progenitor. howard levy.
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> http://crossharpchronicles.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/harmonica-virtuoso-howard-levy-releases-new-cd-tonight-and-tomorrow-on-chicago-sessions/
> Harmonica Virtuoso Howard Levy Releases New CD ?Tonight and Tomorrow?
> on Chicago Sessions
>
> Grammy Award winner, founding member of B?la Fleck and the Flecktones,
> and harmonica virtuoso plays piano and harmonica on this new album of
> original compositions. These songs span his entire career, from 1969
> to present.
>
> With a stellar rhythm section: bassist Larry Gray (Ramsey Lewis Trio)
> and drummer Ernie Adams (Al DiMeola Electric Band).
>
> ?When you combine this iconoclastic skill with his energetic yet
> lyrical approach to improvising, you get a style that has beguiled
> artists from across the musical spectrum ? from newgrass banjoist B?la
> Fleck to post-bopper Ben Sidran, folkies Steve Goodman and Bonnie
> Koloc to the Lebanese oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil, Cuban saxist
> Paquito D?Rivera to ?word jazz? creator Ken Nordine, all of whom have
> featured Levy?s harmonica on their recordings. His harp playing can
> easily detract from Levy?s piano praxis, which he displays on many of
> the more than 200 recordings he?s made. The piano remains his first
> instrument, and he always greets it like an old friend, embracing it
> in his lanky limbs and long thin fingers, before putting it through
> its paces.
>
>
> Levy has technique for miles, matched by a sterling musicianship
> that lets him blister the ears with rapid-fire runs or soothe the
> senses with lullaby harmonies. And his piano work, like his
> repertoire, reflects his unique and wide-ranging set of influences,
> comprising balkan folk tunes, bluegrass, several Brazilian idioms,
> klezmer, mainstream jazz, various middle-eastern traditions, and rock
> through the ages.? ? Neil Tesser (from the liner notes).
>
> Howard Levy is a musician without limits. His musical adventures
> include journeys into jazz, pop, rock, world music, Latin, classical,
> folk, blues, country, theater and film. He has appeared on hundreds of
> CD?s, won a Grammy and a Joseph Jefferson Award, and performed many
> times on American and European television.
>
> Acknowledged to be the world?s most advanced diatonic harmonica
> player, Howard has revolutionized the playing of his instrument and
> taken it into totally new territory. He is also an accomplished
> composer and pianist, and plays many other instruments including
> flute, ocarina, mandolin, saxophone and percussion.
>
> Throughout his career, Howard has performed and recorded with scores
> of famous artists including Paul Simon, Kenny Loggins, Donald Fagen/
> Steely Dan, Dolly Parton, Styx, Paquito D?Rivera, Kurt Elling, Ken
> Nordine, John Prine, Rabih Abou-Khalil and many others. He was a
> founding member of the trailblazing group Bela Fleck and the
> Flecktones, with whom he won a Grammy in 1997.
>
> Howard has made many appearances on Garrison Keillor?s ?A Prairie Home
> Companion?, is music director of Ch?vere, Chicago?s hottest Latin-Jazz-
> Fusion Band , and tours and records with Trio Globo.
>
> He has given over 20 performances of his Concerto for Diatonic
> Harmonica and Orchestra.
>
> Howard studied classical music at The Manhattan School of Music, pipe
> organ with Carl Lambert, and Jazz at Northwestern University. As a
> music educator, he has taught hundreds of students privately and guest
> lectured at Harvard, Berklee, Dartmouth College, Northwestern
> University, and many others. Born in New York City, Howard Levy is a
> long-time resident of Evanston, IL.
>
> What is CHICAGO SESSIONS?
>
> CHICAGO SESSIONS is a jazz record label featuring the best Chicago
> jazz artists, from the established to the undiscovered. We produce
> exclusive, high quality Compact Discs, which focus on the original
> compositions of each artist.
>
> CD?S AVAILABLE AT:
> www.chicagosessions.com