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                                                    HARMONICA  VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

These videos have been accumulated over the past 30 years, while I’ve been playing.  I update the list  periodically, so consider ‘bookmarking’ it, so you can refer to it again!  ALL VIDEOS come in NTSC-VHS (standard USA format), in plain cardboard sleeves.   I guarantee that you will be satisfied with the quality of these videos!  CUSTOMER  SERVICE is very important to me!  I want you to be satisfied with any video(s) you get from me, because….I want you to come back for MORE!  You can see updates to this catalogue on my WEB PAGE: http://jeremy_steinberg.tripod.com/harpvids.htm

 

* IF you purchase $100 worth of videos – any combination – you will get a 10% discount OFF  your order!   This is not just the first time!  This is for any order!  

 

** IF you purchase $250 worth of videos – any combination – you will get a 20% discount OFF your order!   Every time!

 

 *** Consider joining the ‘chat group’ about this whole topic – harmonicavideos@yahoogroups.com.

It’s all about harmonica videos you have seen, and what you think of the content of them.  What harmonica videos do you want to see?  WHO do you want to see on video? 

 

**** Pllease note the ‘GRADING SYSTEM’, which is subjective, on my part, as a means of giving readers some comparative perspective on the musical content (CONTENT) of these videos, as I see it, and the video/audio quality (QUALITY) of these videos, IMHO (In My Humble Opinion).  I try to be objective, but I’m only human!

 

Two grades for each video – CONTENT (A-C), and QUALITY (A-C).  I will not offer any videos below a C grade. I try to be fair and realistic.  But remember, I am bringing my own opinions into the gradings, not yours.  We may not agree about some things.  But hopefully, we all agree that harmonicas are a wonderful instrument, and that almost any video footage of great performers is better than NO video footage of those performers! 

 

Shipping costs: now INCLUDED IN THE PRICE in the continental USA!  Overseas shipping: 1st video $12.00 (airmail shipping), each additional video $6 more.  That’s what it costs me for AirMail.

 

I accept 2 forms of payment: PAYPAL, to: Jsteinberg@ucwphilly.rr.com or jls@ucwphilly.rr.com.

I can also be reached by e-mail at either address.

 

MONEY ORDERS can be mailed to:

 

            J. STEINBERG

            P. O.  Box 13081

            Philadelphia, PA  19101

 

If you have any questions, or any special requests, please let me know.  Thanks for looking!

 

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.    CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B

 

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.   CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A

 

 

Then, CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE does a seminar on diatonics, playing blues, and discussing various positions (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.), using Lee Oskar diatonics (in a Lee OsKar imprinted case!)  

 

And then DON LES and the HARMONICATS do a :45 minute concert!  With Al Fiore on chord harmonica and Dick Bernard on double bass!   Various standards include ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, ‘If I Were a Rich Man’, ‘Strangers in the Night’, ‘Peg o’My Heart’, a Parisienne medley, and an Italian medley!  Some vaudeville thrown  in too, including DICK BERNARD  playing a ‘Little Lady’  completely in his mouth, NO HANDS!  About 2 HRS! 

 

        $24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A+ ; QUALITY – A-

 

 

$29.95 including shipping in USA.   CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A

 

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A

 

 

And then….he plays a song with one harmonica after another used, one per stanza, picking them up and putting them back down WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT, using: Double-bass, 270 chromatic, blues harp, chord harp, polyphonia, single octave “little lady”, and more!  An unbelievable performance and feat!!

 

THEN, The ORIGINAL HARMONICA BAND does a vaudevillian-style concert, with all 6 members (including the dwarf) playing some kind of harmonica!   The RUNS and ARTISTRY of DAVE McKELVEY on chromatic and diatonic harmonicas have to be heard to be believed, and even then, you won’t!  How can somebody’s mouth and tongue even move that fast, let alone not make any mistakes??!!   Absolutely incredible!   About 2 HOURS long!

 

$29.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A+ ;  QUALITY – A-

 

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.   CONTENT – A; QUALITY – A-

 

 

$29.95 shipping included!  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – A-

 

 

24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B-

 

·         PAUL BUTTERFIELD in CONCERT – His LAST concert, recorded LIVE, shortly after the B.B. King concert above!  Butterfield died just DAYS later!   About 1 hour!   VERY RARE!!

 

$29.95 including shipping in USA. CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B-

 

·         PAUL  BUTTERFIELD – 1978 – GERMANY!  Butterfield in fine form, showing off his virtuosity  that made him internationally famous!   RARE footage!   Scratchy at times, but very watchable!  About 1 hr, 15 minutes!

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A;  QUALITY – B-

 

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A- ; QUALITY – B+

 

 

$19.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – B;  QUALITY – C+

 

 

$24.95 shipping included!  CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A

 

·         TOOTS THIELEMANS with PEGGY LEE!!  1966!!  Extremely RARE B/W – TV Variety Show.  Toots Thielemans accompanies Peggy Lee, the great jazz singer, on chromatic harmonica!!  She’s at her sophisticated finest!  He’s young, dark haired, and playful!  First, he plays and  whistles ‘Bluesette’,  his original instrumental!  Then he plays chromatic harmonica is a duet with Peggy Lee!    Numerous other classics with a ‘who’s who’ of Jazz professional musicians at the time, including acoustic guitar, piano, bass, bongo drums, harp (stringed type!),  trumpet, and more! 60 minutes altogether, about 10 minutes with Toots!                                                                                                              

$19.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B+

 

·         JUNIOR  WELLS  in  Conert  with Muddy  Waters  and Buddy Guy!   RARE concert footage from 1974  Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland!   Classics performed include: ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’, ‘Messing With The Kid’, ‘Hoodoo Man Blues’, ‘Got My Mojo Working’, more!  Also with BILL WYMAN on bass,  PINETOP  PERKINS on piano,  DALLAS TAYLOR on drums!   Nearly 1 HOUR!

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA. CONTENT – A-; QUALITY – B+

 

·         BUDDY GUY & JUNIOR WELLS in CONCERT!   The famous pair  (think Rogers & Astaire, Hepburn & Tracy, etcc!)  do a 40 MINUTE concert on stage – with JUNIOR IN A TUXEDO!   Early footage, at their best!   Junior plays with his unmistakeable – and inimitable – COUNTER –POINT  STYLE and TIMING – including a high register BENDS  solo that’s  great! 

 

NEXT,  Junior and Buddy do it again, for an additional half-hour!    This time, Junior is in one of his splendid ‘ensembles’ of clothing finery, dressed “to the nines”!   Well OVER AN HOUR of one of the classic electric blues duos of all time – just as ground-breaking as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee in their heyday!

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.   CONTENT – A ; QUALITY – B+

 

 

$24.95 shipping included!  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B+

 

·         GEORGE  ‘HARMONICA’ SMITH in CONCERT at PEPPER’s LOUNG in CHIACAGO with MUDDY WATERS BAND AND  WITH  THE ROLLING  STONES – MICK JAGGER  SINGING  and  KEITH   JAGGER  on GUITAR and  CHARLIE  WATTS  TOO!!  -  “The Boys”  stop by for a surprise visit with MUDDY and HIS BAND for an impromptu – but INVITED  GUEST  STAGE  APPEARANCE! 

 

MICK  and  MUDDY  TRADE  LYRICS  ON STAGE  for “BABY  PLEASE  DON’T  GO”!     This is a young  Mick  and a  young  Keith – must have been in the 80’s or earlier!   Classic MUDDY WATERS, and a treasure  of a piece of footage.    NOTE:  this is B/W footage.   “Hoochie Coochie Man” ,  “Long Distance Call”  (MICK handles the  VOCALS  after MUDDY hands HIM the mic!   And of course, MUDDY  does “ROLLING STONE”  in their honor, with  MICK chipping in with vocals from time to time!    To watch them talk to the rapt crowd, SIDE-BY-SIDE, mics  in hand, “wriggling” on statge is a RARE  TREAT – the seasoned master and his  gifted pupil!  

 

As if all this weren’t enough,  a young  JUNIOR  WELLS  SHOWS UP for a split--second and adds his unmistakeable ‘growl’ and infectious smile to the proceedings!   After some banter, “Got My Mojo Workin” is played as the salutation, with JUNIOR WELLS  DOING THE STYLIZED  VOCALS, and then  adding the HARP  SOLO IN HIS INIMICABLE  STYLE – with  KEITH RICHARDS  on guitar  right behind him!!  WOW!

 

And then, a young BUDDY GUY (sporting an afro!)   does a  song, playing lead guitar and singing the vocals.   At one point, he and KEITH JAGGER share  guitar lines – are they dueling or  hugging – you be the judge!  Wow wow!   Then comes  JUNIOR WELLS BACK, doing the vocals (HIS  version of SCAT  SINGING!) .

 

Later, watch (and LISTEN!) as KEITH JAGGER stands next to MUDDY, accompanying Muddy’s vocals with his own tasty blues lead riffs!    About 1 HOUR 25 MINUTES of a BLUES LOVE FEST!!

 

$29.95 including shipping in USA.   CONTENT – A+ ; QUALITY - B

 

 

VOLUME 1 includes:  Chromatic  World  Champion!; Claude Garden on diatonic!; Charlie Musselwhite on diatonic!;  Larry Adler!; Jerry Murad and the Harmonicats!  About 1 HOUR,  40 minutes!   ABSOLUTELY  AMAZING  &   UNBELIEVABLE  HARMONICA   PLAYING!!  VERY  RARE  VIDEO!!

 

$29.95 including shipping in USA!  CONTENT – A+; QUALITY – A

 

 VOLUME 2 includes:  Larry Adler! and Jean ‘Toots’ Thielemans!  About 90 minutes! 

 

Hear – and WATCH – LARRY ADLER play ‘Malaguena’ in duet with a young  protégé of his, a youthful Italian chromatic virtuoso!

 

THEN, hear (and WATCH!)  LARRY ADLER tell the story of the duet in the 1930’s that he played with GEORGE GERSHWIN (who wrote it!) at a Cartier Birthday Party for him!  Then, hear Adler play it again, LIVE, for this audience, with an actual recording of  THAT NIGHT’S  DUET  WITH GERSHWIN RECORDED  AS ACCOMPANIMENT!   A revelation!

 

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING  &  UNBELIEVABLE  HARMONICA  PLAYING!!  AGAIN!!    RARE  VIDEO!!

 

$29.95 including shipping in USA!  CONTENT – A+; QUALITY – A

 

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA!  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B+

 

·         BORRAH MINEVITCH & The HARMONICA  RASCALS – with  JOHNNY  PULEO!    Also  LEO  DIAMOND  on CHROMATIC – an absolute wizard!!!   LARRY CLINTON on chromatic with ‘The Philharmonics Orchestra’ – amazing playing!  And others!!  EXTREMELY  RARE   video clips of these  famous harmonica  players!   All B/W, from the 1930’s, 1940’s, 1950’s!   Grainy footage,  but very old!!

 

$29.95 including shipping in USA.    CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B-

 

·         BORRAH MINEVITCH & The HARMONICA RASCALS – with  JOHNNY PULEO!  Another EXTREMELY RARE B/W video of clips of The Harmonica Rascals, with Johnny Puleo.  In German, but the music isn’t!   Slapstick comedy with absolutely incredible harmonica ensemble playing, complete with various solos!   Short clips of several other ensemble harmonica instrumental groups as well!   IMPOSSIBE-TO-FIND!!!  About 20 minutes long.    Unbelievable video – can’t say enough about it!  Grainy footage, but very watch-able!!

 

$29.95 including shipping in USA.    CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B-

 

·         PETE PEDERSEN & RON KALINA!!  JAZZ DUETS, IMPROVISATIONS, DISCUSSIONS!   Master chromatic harmonic players/performers PETE PEDERSEN and RON KALINA put on a jazz jam, tour-de-force, and educational discussion.  Using Hohner CBH-2016, 280 C’s, 270’s, etc., they show how to expand standard musical structures with JAZZ improvisations on harmony.

 

They discuss scales, the blues progression, how to improvise, and the ranges of improvisation.  And they proceed to play some magnificent jazz duets, playing off one another brilliantly, improvising effectively on the spot, and explaining the concepts behind the musical structures they employ.

 

You’ll never look at jazz the same way again!  This will help you get to the next level, no matter where you currently are!  A pair of master musicians clearly demonstrate extraordinary skills, and complete knowledge of musical theory!   From 1987!!!

 

$29.95 including shipping in USA.   CONTENT – A; QUALITY – A-

 

·         LITTLE CHARLIE and The Nightcats 1992  LIVE CONCERT!  Very RARE!  About 90 minutes!  Great blues, jazz, and funk!   RICH ESTRIN puts on a tour-de-force show with his band!  Lot of great amplified diatonic through a bullet mic!  Some acoustic harp too!  At one point, Rich even puts half the harmonica (from one end) IN HIS MOUTH (!)  – like Peg Leg Sam and Frank Frost (among others) used to, and plays “NO HANDS”!   And he also plays some very tasty  CHROMATIC  harp, probably 3rd position!  Very cool video!

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A-- ; QUALITY – B-

 

·         MAGIC DICK with the J. Geils Band – 1979 LIVE CONCERT  in Germany!  Magic Dick in an afro that would have made Jimi Hendrix proud!   Includes Dick’s classic instrumental rendition of ‘Whammer Jammer’!!  Classic hard rock with some old-fashioned rock-n-roll too!  Very RARE footage!  About 1 hour. 

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A-;  QUALITY – C+

 

·         KIM  WILSON – 1993 in Germany – LIVE concert  and  1994  LIVE CONCERT!!  RARE footage!   Great, classic blues harmonica from a master!!    GREAT diatonic blues with a bullet mic!  Also some very tasty CHROMATIC blues harp!   

 

$29.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B-

 

·         JUNIOR  WELLS  INSTRUCTIONAL  VIDEO!   Shortly before his death!   A discussion of the harmonica, Chicago Blues, and how he plays,  with demonstrations!  About an hour!

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – B+ ; QUALITY – B+

 

·         BILLY  BOY  ARNOLD  INSTRUCTIONAL  VIDEO!   A discussion of the harmonica, Chicago Blues, and Southern Blues, including the styles of other famous harmonica players, like Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller),  and Sonny Terry, etc. 

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.   CONTENT – A;  QUALITY – B+

 

·         LARRY  ADLER  in a movie (!) – St. Martin’s Lane!  From 1938!  B/W.   He acts (!)  and plays chromatic harmonica!  Also stars Vivian Leigh, Rex Harrison, and Charles Laughton.  VERY  RARE!   Also known as Sidewalks of London  (and I have BOTH  versions!).

 

$19.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – B; QUALITY – B

 

·         ORBIS DUO 1999  DEMONSTRATION  PERFORMANCE !   Excellent chromatic with harmonette performance!   Then, harmonette with Little Lady performance!   Great example of harmonette in use!  28 minutes.

 

$19.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A- ; QUALITY – B

 

·         CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE plays blues harmonica on All-Star Blues Band!  Rare PBS TV special!  A full hour long!   2000.  Musselwhite in top form on diatonic!

 

$19.95 including shipping in USA!  CONTENT – A-; QUALITY - B

 

·         TOOTS THIELEMANS &  STEVIE WONDER  TOGETHER  ON  CHROMATIC!!   Super RARE footage!  First, Stevie  Wonder gets a ‘Lifetime Achievement  Award’ in Germany!  About 5 minutes.  Then, TOOTS  THIELEMANS  gives an impromptu concert with a nice jazz trio, and starts his signature song, ‘BLUESETTE’.  Stevie comes UP ON STAGE, and JOINS  IN  WITH HIS CHROMATIC  HARP, even picking up on the BLUESETTE  melody line solo!   A choice additional 5 MINUTES!   TOTAL  only 10 minutes of footage, but what a 10 minutes!!

 

$19.95 including shipping in USA.   CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B    

 

·         ROBERT BONFIGLIO  The chromatic virtuoso leads an ensemble of various musicians (and a small chorus) in a series of Christmas-oriented songs.   (He uses a CHB-2016 - the Hohner manufactured Cham-ber Huang chromatic!)  Some diatonic harmonica playing also.   Great tone, and technique, as always!  About 90 minutes!   

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A

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$29.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B-

 

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B

 

·         JERRY MURAD and The Harmonicats – 1989 – RARE!   Jerry’s goatee has turned white!   24 great songs – over 2 hours!  Including the last song (‘Parisienne  Fantasy’) performed on “The Musette”, the double chromatic harmonica designed and custom made by John Infande! 

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B+

 

·         AL  FIORE and the Harmonica Gentlemen!  Very RARE!  1992 performance!   Chromatic, double basss, and chord harmonicas!   About 45 minutes.  

 

$19.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B+

 

1984!     Just 1 song – a very nice jazzy slow blues -  about 6 minutes long – but oh, what a 6 minutes!   Johnny Mars  displays the same harmonica virtuosity that you may have heard on his JSP-distributed CD’s!

 

$14.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – A-

 

·         LARRY ADLER  on  CHROMATIC  HARMONICA!  guest-starring with his not-as-famous brother Jerry, who actually opens the show.   Jerry takes the stage first, for a full 45 minutes!  Popular tunes, conversation, demonstrations, etc!  A marvelous chromatic performer!  Then, he goes off and Larry Adler appears, old and wizened, but nevertheless still with amazing tone and mastery of his chromatic!  Conversation, jokes, and demonstrations follow!  Then, off goes Larry, and Jerry re-appears.  You get the feeling they don’t want to share the stage together, but you still get two amazing chromatic performers who have devoted their lives to this, letting their instruments speak volumes!   I’ve never before seen the two on the same video together!  VERY RARE!  A full hour and 45 minutes of virtuosity!

 

$19.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – A-

 

·         RICHARD  HUNTER displays an uncommon diatonic virtuosity on  a classic southern ballad, then improvisation, as well as an incredibly jazzy bebop blues.  Then WINSLOW YERXA  gives  you a tasty bit  of  jazzy avante-garde blues on chromatic, solo and in trio, with JOE FILISKO!   Then, DENNIS GRUENLING joins in, and five virtuosos do a round-robin of  blues duels!  Jazz, bebop, blues in a very tasty mix!   Another trio shows up, anchored by DANNY WILSON on double-bass!   Later, there is a tour-de-force on a Hohner ‘Little Lady’ single octave diatonic!   And then, the inimitable PETE PEDERSEN shows up and displays his typical jaw-dropping jazz chromatic  talents!   This video is end-to-end wonderful!   About 1 hour, 45 minutes long.

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A+ ; QUALITY –A-

 

·         LARRY EISENBERG plays dynamite diatonic blues.  Then MARK HUMMEL shows up, and plays with a bullet mic, alternating between diatonic and chromatic blues!    Next,  JERRY PORTNOY displays the classic expressive blues diatonic style for which he’s famous.   And then Paul duels/duets with Mark!   Just when you’re trying to catch your breath, here comes PETER (Madcat) RUTH taking off on one of his one-of-a-kind diatonic train riffs!  He segues into a super slow classic blues, working hard, long, deep bends.  Then he takes off the kind of lightning-fast blues instrumentals that earned him the name ‘Madcat’ in the first place!   Soon, DENNIS GRUENLING takes the spotlight, playing super tasty chromatic blues!  He sounds a little like Little Walter!   Following him, RANDY SINGER does diatonic blues, Chicago style!    Then there’s LARRY EVERHART on diatonic.  One after another after another after another on this GREAT VIDEO!   About 1 hour, 50 minutes!

 

$29.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A+ ; QUALITY – A-

 

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A+; QUALITY – A-

·         KIM WILSON guest-stars on Austin City Limits – W.C. Clark and friends.  Classic Kim Wilson-style rockin-blues!  A number of nice feature solos!  About 25 minutes.  RARE!

 

$19.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A- ; QUALITY – C+

 

·         WILLIAM CLARKE – 1987 concert!   The classic tone and chops on a chromatic harp that made this virtuoso famous!   One great jazz-laced blues solo after another on a bullet mic!   Then, a talk-show appearance blues band with Clarke providing tasty harp accompaniment and solos on a diatonic (a Pat Sajak talk show)!   Then, in Salt Lake City in 1995, Clarke fronts the band again.  And again, in Virginia, same year. One hell of a showman!  Very RARE performances by this now-deceased harp player extraordinaire!    About 1 hour!

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – C+

 

·         BIG WALTER HORTON in a studio!  Do you remember Arhoolie Records?!  Do you remember a white album (remember LPs?!) with Walter Horton, harmonica-in-hand, staring at you with Johnny Shines?   I still have it!  Here’s extremely RARE vintage footage of a young Walter Horton playing diatonic through a mic in a studio with Johnny Shines and Home Boy Edwards!  This might be the same recording studio where that album was recorded!   This is a choice 5 minutes of Walter Horton in classic form, jamming away!  Also on this exceptional hour-long video: a young John Lee Hooker (!), Bukka White, and other classic performers!  B/W footage.

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B

 

·         JOHN POPPER at Montreux Jazz Festival – in classic form!   Popper playing with Blues Traveler, sharp, and in form, with form,  letting loose with his trademark lighting runs!    A classic Blues Traveler performance, and  vintage Popper!   B/W footage.

 

$24.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A-; QUALITY – B

 

·         PETER ‘MADCAT’ RUTH & Shari KANE in Germany – Very RARE CONCERT  FOOTAGE  of this seasoned pair of virtuosos on guitar and diatonic harmonica  with NO backing band!   The  repertoire ranges from classic blues to jazz, including a piece that Madcat used to play  early on with the Dave Brubeck Jazz Trio!   Absolute virtuoso harp, as you’d expect!  Includes an acoustic solo by Madcat!   About 13 choice minutes!

 

$19.95 including shipping in USA.  CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B

 

·        CHAM-BER HUANG  plays  classical music – on a customized chromatic – with the reed plates reversed (!).  The