Jazz Harp

[Lat-Literal]

Haven't said hello here for a while.

Open for any sort of comment but from me it's an unequivocal "yes"!

Corky Hale and Kitty White - My Romance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EriLJZfxXc
Dorothy Ashby - Round Midnight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXDIDK7Ync
Brandee Younger - Taxidermy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcFQYUwBOt8
Alice Coltrane - Turiya And Ramakrishna - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMuDWDVd20

Also, is Alice Coltrane ridiculously underrated or what?

- eg that Turiya is brilliant -played it three times tonight!!!!

[Lat-Literal]

Post 2 and undeterred!

The brilliant:

Alice Coltrane - Oceanic Beloved - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEYueIlUsdg

...and the wonderful Dorothy Ashby where she really was- I guess cross-genre:

Dorothy Ashby - Grass & Grape - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4UDM7lzAWE

If we're brave, we might start talking about Toumani Diabate and the kora in this context?

[Hornspieler]

Has anyone heard of my friend Dave Snell?

Started out as a pianist in the RA Band (National Service) and was told to learn the harp because some of the pianos in various RA Mess visits had been rendered unplayable by those lovely young subalterns who give the word "Mess" its true meaning.

So Dave fell in with our band's jazz afficionados (John Scott, Jonny Holbroke, Gabey Wales) and soon found himself in Archer Street where all the jazzmen hung out.

Actually joined the Bournemouth Orchestra shortly after demob, but soon established himself in the lighter side of musical endeavour.

Dave would surely be retired by now - he would be remembered by those who frequented the Soho Jazz Scene and the Ronnie Scott club.

HS

[Serial_Apologist]

Has anyone heard of my friend Dave Snell?

Yes indeed - he played in Joh Dankworth's big band in the early 1960s and is on my well-worn LP of "What the Dickens". One or two b&w clips of him playing as part of Jazz 625s in the middle 1960s have in the past been linked from this board, iirc.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ05WdTllH0

... a couple more Dave Snell recordings on youTube, too.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks for that ferney - I'm a bit "pushed" today".

[Lat-Literal]

Has anyone heard of my friend Dave Snell?

Started out as a pianist in the RA Band (National Service) and was told to learn the harp because some of the pianos in various RA Mess visits had been rendered unplayable by those lovely young subalterns who give the word "Mess" its true meaning.

So Dave fell in with our band's jazz afficionados (John Scott, Jonny Holbroke, Gabey Wales) and soon found himself in Archer Street where all the jazzmen hung out.

Actually joined the Bournemouth Orchestra shortly after demob, but soon established himself in the lighter side of musical endeavour.

Dave would surely be retired by now - he would be remembered by those who frequented the Soho Jazz Scene and the Ronnie Scott club.

HS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ05WdTllH0

... a couple more Dave Snell recordings on youTube, too.

Thanks.

Snell and Purcell etc - 1970:

Johnny Scott Quintet - Theme and Variation 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8KLO9M1_5U

(Late 1960s/Early 1970s seems to have been the era for it!)

[french frank]

Well, stap me - y'all talkin' 'bout HARPS:

[Quarky]

O Que Sera Roberto Perera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2EcsOCamM

electric harp!

[Jazzrook]

Here's Wu Wei playing a Chinese 'harp': www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn45L7Sebjw

[Lat-Literal]

An interesting last three posts which I enjoyed.

Maybe we are now in the area of "define harp"!

[Serial_Apologist]

An interesting last three posts which I enjoyed.

Maybe we are now in the area of "define harp"!

http://www.gayot.com/beer/top10irishbeers/harp-lager.html

Pull the other one!

[Serial_Apologist]

Heavy metal free improv harp?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGzP2sA0Wmg

I'll bet MrGG knows of this lady.

[french frank]

An interesting last three posts which I enjoyed.

Maybe we are now in the area of "define harp"!

Whole new meaning - or three. I really didn't realise the harp (no other name available) was used in jazz. I had a small C blues 'harp' and a book called 'Bending the Blues'.

'From the jail Came the wail Of a down-hearted frail …'

[Lat-Literal]

Whole new meaning - or three. I really didn't realise the harp (no other name available) was used in jazz. I had a small C blues 'harp' and a book called 'Bending the Blues'.

'From the jail Came the wail Of a down-hearted frail …'

It's also in boogie, french frank:

Adele Girard Trio - Harp Boogie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtkSzow0FY

.......but Casper Reardon was the first!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper_Reardon