NPR

Beyond The Blues: The Blues Harmonica In Jazz

In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...
NPR

Harmonica Blues With A 'Brand' New Beat

Hear Brandon Bailey perform two songs live in the NPR studio. The harmonica is a staple of American blues, beginning with the Memphis jug bands of the 1920s. In the 1960s, blues-influenced artists ...
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OriGlam Blues Harmonica Key Of C - 10 Hole Diatonic, Phosphor Bronze Reeds, With Case & Cloth

Harmonica C OriGlam Blues Harmonica Key Of C - 10 Hole Diatonic, Phosphor Bronze Reeds, With Case & Cloth Harmonicas For ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Inhaling the Blues: How Southern Black Musicians Transformed the Harmonica

“Classic Harmonica Blues,” out on May 21, features 20 tracks by the blues’ greatest harmonica players. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings In the early 20th-century, southern black ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1968, We Tragically Lost the Legendary Blues Innovator Who Took the Harmonica to a Whole New Level

Getting his start as a member of the legendary Muddy Waters’ band, Little Walter Jacobs took the harmonica to a whole new level. Developing his own unique techniques, blues musicians still look to him ...
Los Angeles Times

Blues harmonica player James Cotton, Mr. Superharp, dies at 81

Mississippi blues harp player James Cotton was certainly considered lucky for the break he got joining Muddy Waters’ band in the late 1950s, taking over a spot previously held by such venerated ...
Yahoo

In Bruce Willis' 'impromptu' harmonica session, there's nothing sad about the blues

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bruce Willis, pictured in October 2019, brought fans joy by playing the blues on harmonica. (Charles Sykes / Invision/Associated ...
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Blues harmonica icon is performing here, there and everywhere in CT

If you ask James Montgomery if he remembers playing the Shaboo inn in Willimantic back in the day — the legendary local club that closed in 1982 — he’ll hem and haw and scratch his head and say “The ...
The Washington Post

Phil Wiggins, harmonica master of Piedmont blues, dies at 69

Phil Wiggins, a blues harmonica virtuoso who embraced the jaunty Piedmont style and toured the world as part of a duo celebrating a distinctive musical form that was revived in clubs and impromptu ...
Los Angeles Times

John ‘Juke’ Logan, L.A.-based blues harmonica player, dies at 66

John “Juke” Logan, 66, a Los Angeles-based blues harmonica player whose wailing melodies can be picked out of the theme music for the 1990s TV sitcoms “Roseanne” and “Home Improvement,” died Aug. 30 ...
Slate

Did We Mention That Stevie Wonder Is Also an Incredible Harmonica Player?

In the summer of 1963, a strange record by a 12-year-old boy who’d already racked up a string of flops spent three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. It’s largely a showcase for that ...