Word: harmonicist
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...this is how their music works best. Indeed, when guitarist Ken Myhr and mandolinist and harmonicist Jeff Bird (who have toured on and off with the Junkies for years) left the stage for a couple of tunes off of the Junkies first album, Whites Off Earth Now, the Junkies glimmered with a raw intimacy that was previously overpowered by Myhr's slick lead guitars lines. (To be fair, Myhr often played an aching slide guitar, such as on "Cause Cheap is How I Feel," but his sunglasses and purple shirt didn't totally jibe with the Margo's flowing shapeless...
...palms. He could no more describe the magic than could his friend Feather, after seeing a similar performance almost 20 years ago. There was no need. Haunting as a train whistle at midnight, evocative as a gutbucket trumpet, as clean as a bank of violins, the music made by Harmonicist Larry Adler, 45, transformed the tawdry basement nightclub. For a little while last week, the bandstand at San Francisco's "hungry i" nightclub seemed as big as a concert stage...
Ingrid Bergman returned from USOing in Germany with a warm memory of one histrionic balcony scene: she stood on a Berlin balcony Hitler had used and delivered the Gettysburg Address to G.I.s, Russians and Berliners in the square below-while Harmonicist Larry Adler stood by and rendered The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...muttonchop era, someone dragged a microphone. Entered a lean, intense, bug-eyed young man in white tie & tails. In his hand he bore a mouth organ. Impassively and impressively he proceeded to render a solo. The Blue Danube. Such was the operatic debut of the world's greatest harmonicist, Larry Adler...
There was Bach and Handel on the program, but the Bach came out of a mouth organ, and the Handel was background for the clickety-clicks of a tap dancer. This recital in Philadelphia last week was given by Harmonicist Larry Adler, a young man who resembles Eddie Cantor, and Tap Dancer Paul Draper, who looks like a blonder Franchot Tone. They had deserted the nightclubs for a joint concert tour...