Re[2]: posts

"Jonathan E. Brickman" <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:45:04 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.music.equipment.harmonica.big-harmonica
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I am Sam Mok, origin from Hong Kong,  living in Mississauga,
> Ontario Canada over 15 years.  I play Chromatic , Tromolo
> and 10 holes diatonic. However,  tromolo is my preference, whereby,
> I  learned it  since my junior school and now is at mid
> 40. I  usually play tromolo chromatically  in pair.  I like to alter
> the double reeds and single reed  within the music in order to make
> both tones more demonstarting. (eg. I  can do bending at single reed
> , while do chords , Octive, 3rd, 5th at double reeds).  This
> performance style is  common amount Asian and Japanese artists. I 
> mainly  use Tombo and Suzuki and fews from  China, with all the
> major keys and few minor keys.   

Sam, I would very much like to hear your work sometime!

> I perform hymns and gospel music at Church.  I also play a lot of
>  folks, classical and occasional Jazz. 

My favorite work in tremolo is jazz or R&R, playing a backup part more often served by either a saxophone or a trumpet, or even by backup singers.  I was baptized in a black church here in Topeka, and in some of such churches is, I think, the very highest-quality jazz still extant.

> Please keep this  communication  going. I trust  tremolo still
> have a lot of bright future.  The beauty  has not been  explored by
> many harmonica players, especially  in N. Americas.  Hope to 
> see the growth.

I think it will.  The ensemble advantages are very substantial.

-- 
Jonathan E. Brickman
http://joshuacorps.org