John Bryan Harmonica Collector
…benefits of modern methods of communication – he never used email or searched the Internet. How did he do it? John was born in Portsmouth. He and Nora married young…
…benefits of modern methods of communication – he never used email or searched the Internet. How did he do it? John was born in Portsmouth. He and Nora married young…
Jim Hughes saw a video of Graham Whettam’s composition Concerto Scherzoso for Harmonica and Orchestra on YouTube, which was attributed to Larry Adler but did not sound like him. I…
More popular harmonica group favourites from the 1940s and 50s are from a large collection of recordings assembled by John Bryan (1924-2014) who built up contacts and friendships around the…
…“Red” Newman, John Sebastian and Rhythm Willie. Here are the main sections of Pat’s website – www.patmissin.com – The main index page. Site Contents Fairly Frequently Asked Questions Answers to…
…of his recordings. http://www.the-archivist.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Larry-Adler-In-his-own-words-upload-mono.mp3 Tracklist 1 – Introduction – Larry Adler 2 – Smoke gets in your eyes – Jerome Kern 3 – Beginnings – Larry Adler 4 – Minuet…
…was agreed that the name of the magazine would be changed to Harmonica World because Harmonica News was registered to Hohner. Operating costs had to be brought under control so…
…composers are available through email – jamesmoodyscores@gmail.com Jim was a great advocate of learning to sight read music and did so all his working life – a great asset for…
…Hamburg Export office to reorganise the new company. He was a British National born in Bradford with an English mother and a German father. It was an inspired choice. In…
…all the more miraculous to my ears since I tried improvising on those very difficult chord changes. In January 1996 he agreed to be interviewed before a gig in Leiden,…
…to The Round House pub in Soho in 1955 where he and Alexis Korner absorbed blues and amplification from visiting American artists and recordings. They emerged in 1962 as Blues…