Mose Allison, via Christopher D. Sessums:
…and compare Peter Mulvey’s (Forty Dollar Haircut on a) 29 Cent Head, streaming via CDBaby
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Been a while
…what with summer visitors, a weekend at an extreme yoga workshop, more summer visitors. But here’s one that summarizes a lot of what I learned about The South in 13 years of living on its fringes, courtesy of Michelle Shocked:
How’d I miss this one?
Another duel
via Echidne:
Lamellophones
I happened upon this bit of organological serendipitude via Make’s blog, featuring a Pitch Bending Thumb Piano:
As an instrument, I think it’s not totally successful, but certainly heuristic for those who think about musical experimentation. Lately I’ve been deeply immersed in a wide spectrum of African musics, and the clip sent me off on a search for some interesting variants of approach to “thumb piano” (so many other names… sanza, mbira, kalimba…). Here are some of the results:
Jazz improvisation on a 5 octave Array mbira
Garland – Suite for Bass Sanza
Don MacLane’s musical instruments
Ken Kolodner Plays the Dulcimer-Mbira in West Virginia (and more via his Web site)
Twin bass saxes
All too seldom does one see mastodons in duet (2:55 to 5:50). Here’s the Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band:
(via Keep Swinging)
Saturday morning saz fix
and
On the clarinet account
via The Klezmer Shack:
and Hillborg’s Clarinet Concerto “Peacock Tales”, with Martin Frost, clarinet:
Sez Brad,
“anybody can play 12-bar”:
Still plentiful chops
Ton Van Bergeyk was a guitar hero of mine in the 1970s, an agile fingerpicker with a fine ragtimey repertoire. I’m delighted to discover via Keep Swinging that he’s still playing. Here’s one video:
and it turns out there are a dozen more too!