Who are your favorite harmonica players?

@Pigglies (9329)
United States
February 27, 2007 1:48am CST
I enjoy listening to Charlie McCoy and Larry Adler. My favorite piece I've heard performed by Charlie McCoy is "Orange Blossom Special". Those harmonica solos are absolutely amazing! My favorite piece I've heard by Larry Adler is Rhapsody in Blue. I could only dream about being such a great harmonica player! I love listening to harmonica music. I'm very impressed by great harmonica soloists.
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nuffsed
@nuffsed (1271)
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8 Mar 07
I love the sound of the blues played with a "harp"...and That means Sonny Terry and Brownie Maghee.
Pigglies
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
9 Mar 07
Oh I love the blues too! I tried to learn, but that seems to be something that you either pick up or you don't. Apparently I studied classical music for too long to understand playing without sheet music.
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nuffsed
@nuffsed (1271)
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9 Mar 07
That's something I've heard before...too musically disciplined to be free. Ahh well, you can't have it all lol
aksingh
@aksingh (20)
• India
2 Mar 07
Offcourse Mr Larry Adler . And his best album is "Genviee" is the best one . Lets start negotiating our Favorite Harmonica Players in detail. I would give details of Mr . Larry Adler here - Born As Larry Cecil Adler on 10th feb 1914.Generally acknowledged as the best and the most Prominent Harmonica player ever. He began playing mouth organ at the age of 13.He had been enrolled in the Peabody School of music to study Piano. He was expelled From there and thus went on to learn by ear. And thus became the best player . I would Like to provide some great Links about the great player . Please visit- http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Larry%20Adler http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Adler http://imdb.com/title/tt0045808/ The orignal Genevieve web site is www.donbrockway.com/genevieve Here you can go and listen to genevieve music .
Pigglies
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
2 Mar 07
Wow, thanks for all the additional info! Larry Adler has a book out too, "Me and My Big Mouth" I think it's called. I bought it and have a copy somewhere, but haven't read it yet. I didn't know he was playing by ear, that's amazing!