Walter Buchinger taught harmonica at the Musikschule in Laakirchen, Austria for 30 years. He took groups of children to perform at festivals all over the world
Author: Archie
Toots Thielemans at 100
Top jazz harmonica player, Toots Thielemans would have been 100 years old in 2022. Here Toots talks about his long life in interviews edited together by Nico Kanakaris.
A Tribute to Tommy Morgan (1932 – 2022)
The 1960s was the beginning of the Golden Age of film and TV themes and producers were looking for harmonica players. Tommy Morgan had the skills and would tackle anything. He became the “go-to” man for recording sessions, something he did for decades. Tommy said he had done over 900 film scores and 7000 recording sessions.
A conversation with Tommy Morgan by Phil Hopkins.
Phil Hopkins interviewed Tommy Morgan in 2010 about his long career as a mainly chromatic harmonica player who played on hundreds of film scores and thousands of recording dates.
Pre Harmonica Blues
when I saw the new box full of second hand records, I resisted buying over 20 recordings including 78rpm discs by Bessie Smith and Mead Lux Lewis but could not resist 4 10″ LPs by King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Josh White and Chris Barber, which were a part of my music education in the mid 1950s.
English Traditional Harmonica Players
Whilst there is a lot of information on the use of the harmonica in Scottish and Irish Traditional music, little has been written about its use in England. This reflects the lower profile of traditional music in England and the relative isolation of most of the harmonica/mouth organ players. Musicians usually use tremolo or diatonic […]
Art Daane – harmonica performer and collector
Art Daane, a unique and exceptional collector of harmonica music and information about the performers, died 23 January, 2021
Max Geldray
The First Harmonica Jazz Player – by Art M. Daane The Beginning. Max Geldray was born Max van Gelder in Amsterdam in 1916. It was not until 1932 that he first saw a chromatic harmonica; the shop owner offered it to him when he was taking refuge from a torrential rainstorm in his shop.By 1934 […]
Jim Hughes “Live @ Stratford (UK)”, 1983
This concert was recorded by someone and a CD-R of the concert was found in the archive I got from John Bryan. This was the second annual convention of the independent National Harmonica League run at that time by John Walton. He had taken it over from Hohner in 1981 and it was run by […]
Dror Adler – The Classical Project
I originally published this article in Harmonica World in June 2006. I think it is worth including it here. Dror wrote: I have been a member of the Adler Trio since we formed it in 1963. Here is a little bit of history and the background that led to the recording of my new CD, […]