... was fifteen he knew how to play the harmonica and he would later teach himself the guitar. The young Waters followed in his fathers musician footsteps. He was part of a band at fifteen, with Scott Bowhandle on guitar and Sonny Simms playing the violin. They would play some Saturday nights in downtown Clarksdale and others he would sell fried fish on ... South musicians. Waters didn't have a sing-song voice, but a deep raspy voice. Success was steadily increasing especially since the addition of band members. The band complimented his sound. Jimmy Rogers was on the guitar, and harmonica ...

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... chosen to do. Church music, brass bands, Australian music, baroque, pop music and all the other ones out there. But I wanted to do something that would be more interesting to define. When asked what the real meaning of jazz was, Louis Armstrong's famous reply was "if you had to ask, you"ll never know". Whatever else he meant, he was at ... and harmonic language of swing. The approach is either a jam session in a swing style with collective improvisation opening or closing the performance; or the horns scored in harmony in a big-band-type arrangement Bebop In the 1940's some Jazz musicia...

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