Horace the Great Harmonica King
Contents:
Everything else is a waste of energy. Your version of it is no exception.
I think I remember reading somewhere one time that Little Walter used to play it. But when I was learning the instrument, even to this day, anything that runs through my mind, a melody, no matter what kind of tune, blues or otherwise, I always grab a harp and see if I can make it happen. When I get a tune that I like that I can apply to the instrument in a way that comes out musically satisfying, then I am willing to throw it into my set or whatever, as long as I like the tune.
I do 'Misty', and I do this stuff live now when I have the right kinds of players with me. It spices it up and it's something different than the standard Chicago Blues harmonica repertoire. Sometimes there are certain notes missing on a harmonica, but sometimes you can still make it work if you can find substitutions within the chord or something. You can still make that song work on a harp. The phrasing and the way it lays, it's got to suit the instrument. If it doesn't, you have to leave those things alone. I don't try and cram a square peg into a round whole. You know, sometimes a G harmonica.
Kindle E Books Free Download Horace The Great Harmonica King By Felix Mayerhofer Pdf 1600022553
Most of my sets five or six harmonica's get me through for anything that I need. I like to bring the song out and I chose them because they really laid well for the harmonica. I thought that the particular tonal qualities of the harmonica suited the songs pretty good. And, they had never really been done, to my knowledge, on the small harmonica, as opposed to the chromatic harp. But the small harmonica has different tonal characteristics, many of which are quite appealing. I thought that if I could bring that to bear on those melodies than I could do a good job on those songs.
Wobbly Bags a Thief General Fiction Apr What a shock Wobbly the shopping cart received when he overheard the manager of the market say he would be replaced. Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed 5. I saw him again in Italy at the Umbria Jazz Festival. As a young teen, I taped "On the Road Again" off the radio and tried to figure stuff out on harmonica. In Horace Heidt conducted an ensemble of eight musicians all of whom played harmonica on Saturday evenings at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. A bunch of guys were in there and the musicians that were staying at the other hotels would come by because we would have jam sessions late at night in the lounge.
You could hear all kinds of stuff. Unfortunately that is no longer true. Radio playlists are so controlled that generally the stations now offer little autonomy in what they play. They buy formatted playlists from companies that do the research. It's all marketing and demographics. You can drive cross-country from New York to California and hear the same twenty songs on the radio.
When I was a kid the DJ's would play what they wanted to play. If they heard a new record that they liked then they would put it on the turntable.
Harmonica Blues
You were exposed to more stuff back then. The big time was the weekends, especially Sunday. And people came from all over the Midwest, people would drive for hours to come to the Maxwell Street Market. It was basically closed to auto traffic to a great extent. The shopkeepers would set up these wooden stands and they would put out and display their wares in the open air. You could buy anything down there. And you bargained for everything.
2018 Artists
You kind of haggled like an Old World market. There was nothing like it. It was just a fabulous, fabulous place.
- Horace the Great Harmonica King (Paperback, illustrated edition).
- Join Kobo & start eReading today;
- Account Options?
- Horace Heidt.
- The Freewill Question;
- A War of Their Own: Bombers over the Southwest Pacific - World War II Fifth Air Force Air War, General George Kenney, U.S. Army Air Forces (AAF).
Colorful, every kind of person down there. Everything imaginable under the sun was for sale. The whole place would have the smells of grilling porkchops and hotdogs, onions and pork sausage, it was unbelievable. It was really a crime that they knocked the whole thing down. Actually there was a place called Maxwell Radio and Record store, which was at Maxwell. I remember going in there as a kid and they had all these glossy's of these Black entertainers up there and they had old radios and radio parts, and they sold records and they actually made records there. Back in I actually went down there and the place was still open, and the original owner was still there, and I asked about that record and he said, 'Oh, that thing.
I might have something downstairs. Unfortunately they were 78's and they were brittle and I should have taken better care of them because they eventually broke. They would be worth hundreds and hundreds of dollars on the market today.
He was my first band leader. How did that happen? I mean, I applied myself to it. I was crazy about it. I would fall asleep playing it and wake up playing it. It was always in my pocket. If I was standing there waiting on a bus I'd be practicing. I played all the time back then. I did a little bit out in San Francisco. Actually I did play on the streets of Chicago later on too, about Paul was living in Muddy's basement and I used to go down there and hang.
Sometimes we would go upstairs and Muddy would be in his bathrobe and his do-rag and he would be watching the Cubs game. If he was in a good mood he would offer us some champagne and stuff like that. So, he knew me, and then if I showed up at one of the gigs sometimes he would invite me up to play. I had been playing with Johnny Young for a couple of years, and then I played with Johnny Littlejohn for another couple of years.
At that point Johnny Young had passed away and there was a benefit for his family at this club in Chicago.
Additional Information
I had a day job down at Cook County Jail at that time and after work I went down to this club where they were holding this benefit and Muddy was there. He invited me to play on his set and when I finished he had his manager take my phone number and a few days later I got a call and an invitation to join the band.
It was a great day. It is one of my favorite BB King records. But I started working there in '72, I think. Actually, though, I did see BB there subsequently, but not the time they recorded. I did see Liza Minelli there, both of us laughing and she did not go over well. It was pretty funny. I remember walking in with some of the prisoners and after the show they said, 'Man, that bitch ain't laying nothing down'. Her little Broadway shtick didn't go over to well. I mean he played for a year after we left, but the last band was a thrown together thing and they didn't really have any experience with him.
I don't think he was too happy with it. We were the last of the real Muddy Waters Bands. We were the longest band he ever had without a change in personnel.
Felix Mayerhofer · OverDrive (Rakuten OverDrive): eBooks, audiobooks and videos for libraries
We played there several times. I remember Big Joe Duskin would open up for us a couple of times. I remember that gig. But the core of the band, the partners in the band were Pinetop, Willie, Calvin Jones and myself. He wouldn't sit down and tell me anything, but you know, I always kept my eyes and ears open.
I learned a lot being the leader of the Legendary Blues Band. I was the emcee, I got us a recording contract, I produced the records, I wrote the original songs, I handled the money, the bookkeeping, I road managed it, so I learned my way around the business taking care of that band. What was that like? We had a club gig at the time at the Cellar Door in Washington.
The White House gig was the annual White House staff picnic. The White House people were in charge of putting that together and I guessed they looked and checked to see who would be in town at the time and they saw Muddy Waters was playing at the Cellar Door. So Muddy's management got a call to ask if they would perform at the White House for this event and that's what we did.
They picked us up in these grey vans and took us through the gates and took us through security, which I am sure wasn't as tight as it is now. But they still patted us down and 'wanded' us and made sure we weren't presenting a danger. It was pretty quick, and we went in and they had the whole thing set up. I remember that we played a pretty good, long set.
I remember that it was really sunny and I got a little sunburn on the back of my neck. But they gave us a tour of the White House and fed us, it was a staff picnic so they were serving hamburgers and lemonade and what not. Jimmy was cool as he could be. One of them was Dizzy Gillespie. They had wonderful lineups back then. So, Dizzy was a big fan of Muddy's and if he was around he would always come up and sit in with us.
We used to play at Christmas time in Chicago if we were in town. Generally we were because Muddy didn't like to be on the road at Christmas so we would take an in-town gig. We played at a club called The Quiet Night, up on the north side. That night five limo's pull up and each one contained a Rolling Stone. They all had their own separate limos.
Yeah, that's what they started off playing. If you listen to their real early stuff all they are doing is covering old blues songs.
Muddy and Wolf, mainly. Actually I opened up for the Allman Brothers with my own band in New Hampshire probably about ten years ago. A bunch of guys were in there and the musicians that were staying at the other hotels would come by because we would have jam sessions late at night in the lounge. They had a piano in there and all that sort of stuff.
And, they would have all of these fabulous musicians come by like Jimmy Rowles on piano, Al Grant, trombone guys from the Basie Band, all of these fabulous players and I would play there and have a ball. I got a kick out of it to because some of these great Jazz musicians never really heard what a small harmonica could do. I'd jump in on some of this stuff and they'd go 'damn'. You know, I would play the bluesier side of Jazz and I loved those times. We went to Japan twice, toured the States, toured Europe. I had a great time on that gig, it was great.
He had a good band too. It was a real pleasure, the whole thing. Clapton loves the blues and he has got a real feel for it. He can play the hell out of it. I mean, as far as lifestyle went. But the greatest musical thrill was playing with Muddy. That will never be surpassed. It's a box set, a beautifully packaged product. It contains three CD's and a page book. It's a 'book' style box set. It runs over three hours, it's got over playing examples, it's a complete manual for the technique of Blues harmonica.
- But, What is Asthma? (But, What Is..)!
- Upcoming Events.
- Navigation menu.
- iTunes is the world's easiest way to organize and add to your digital media collection..
- Eclipse.
- What is Kobo Super Points?!
- Peter Laffey & The King Bees: Polk Salad Annie.
Too Close Blues - Lightnin' Slim 6. Buzz Me Babe - Slim Harpo 8. Red Top - Jerry McCain Jailhouse Blues - Sleepy John Estes Love My Baby - Shakey Jake Blueberry Hill - Buster Brown Just Your Fool - Little Walter Whoopin' The Blues - Sonny Terry. Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters 2. Cut That Out - Junior Wells 7. Patrol Blues - Lazy Lester 9.
Fannie Mae - Buster Brown I'll Be Around - Howlin' Wolf.