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Jason Rosenblatt
Jason Rosenblatt and Shtreiml: Harmonica Galitzianer
by Elliott Simon
Diatonic Harmonica CDs are certainly not on many jazz fans “Best of” lists. As designed, it is not a jazz instrument and is more at home with straight blues or country. Players like Toots Thielemans use a chromatic harp in order to go beyond second position and get that jazzy feel. Recently, Howard Levy and John Popper have redefined the diatonic instrument and through full bends, overblows and breath control have opened up the instrument to jazz, Caribbean and mid-eastern ...
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