Video of the Week February 8 2011: Barcelona Bluegrass Band
Killer harmonica from Joan Pau Cumellas in this video, who knew that Spanish kids were getting into bluegrass? Plenty of other stuff on Youtube from this band and this concert, check it ALL out.
Video of the week February 5 2011: Charlie Musselwhite in Concert
Charlie Musselwhite and band playing “Blues Why Do You Worry Me?” Classic Charlie, meaning blue and personal, with touches of jazz in both the harp and guitar. Charlie starts this piece in second position, switches to third position for the first solo, and back to…
More ringtones!
I’ve put a few new ringtones up on my site on the downloads page. Scroll to the bottom of the page and look at the Ringtones section. At the top of that section, you’ll see “3 harp slide,” “3 harp stroll”, and “Dual Electro Harp…
Video of the Week, 21 January 2011: JJ Milteau with Soul Conversation
The great French harp player JJ Milteau with Soul Conversation, in a live concert performance of “Rock ‘n Roll Will Never Die” from 2009. The rhythm section in this band drives very hard, and Milteau responds with some electrifying rhythm work on acoustic harp. Love…
Video of the week 15 January 2011: Marcos Coll plays hiphop with my patch set
Here’s Spanish harmonica player Marcos Coll with his latest hiphop project. Plenty of harp in this performance, all played through a Digitech RP250 running my patch set. The sound of the harp is cool and ambient, fits great with the music.
Comin Home Baby with Richard Hunter and Annie Raines
Video of the Week 23 Dec. 2010: Chris Michalek, RIP
Chris Michalek, a dedicated harmonica artist, died last week unexpectedly and too young. (Which is the case for most of us, I guess.) This video shows Chris playing with a solid band, without his usual battery of effects, all the better to hear his beautiful…
The ringtones are going up
I’ve started making ringtones out of some of my recent pieces, including my 30-second blues explosion “The Ripper”, as well as some less aggressive (still harp-saturated) pieces. You can hear them all (and buy one for yourself or someone else, if you like) right here…
Video of the Week 1 Dec 2010, version 2: Boris Plotnikov and Howard Levy
Two extremely original and compelling harmonica players throwing down. Love it. This is Boris’s second Video of the Week for us. Here’s the first. It’s Howard’s second too. Here’s his first.
Video of the Week 1 December 2010: Jason Ricci Live
Here’s a live performance from one of the modern blues and rock harp masters, Jason Ricci. Jason starts the performance without amp or effects here, and his tone is simply wonderful. The device used to record this performance went into overload when Jason started playing…
