The Accordion Thread

[Pete C]

Inspired by the Galliano thread.

I love all sorts of accordion-centered music - zydeco, forro, musette, etc.

Two of the most amazing players I've seen are Regis Gizavo (Madagascar) & Kepa Junkera (Basque).

More when I'm not so tired.

Add your accordion thoughts.

[frankiepop]

pauline oliveras

[Ralf Wacker]

To avoid any rating in alphabetic order of first name:

Antonello Salis
my recommendation: P. A. F.: Morph - Label Bleu 2004

Astor Piazzolla
my recommendation: Astor Piazzolla: The Rough Dancer And The Cyclical Night - VeraBra music / american clave 1987
and Astor Piazzolla: La Camorra: La Soledad de la Provocat... - VeraBra music / american clave 1988
and Astor Piazzolla y su Quinteto Tango N...: Tango: Zero Hour Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero - VeraBra music / american clave 1988
(all produced by Kip Hanrahan)

Dino Saluzzi
my recommendation: Dino Saluzzi: Once upon a time - Far away in the south - ECM 1985
or Saluzzi / Ruocco / Werner / Cohen / Baron: If (music composed by Myriam Alter) - enja 2001
or ...

Gianni Coscia
my recommendation: Gianliugi Trovesi / Gianni Coscia: In cerca di cibo - ECM 1999

Guy Klucevsek
my recommendation: Dave Douglas: Charms of the night sky - Winter & Winter 1997

Jean-Louis Matinier
my recommendation: Renaud Garcia-Fons: Alboreá - enja 1995
or Michel Godard: Castel Del Monte - enja 1998

Luciano Biondini
my recommendation: Luciano Biondini / Javier Girotto: Terra Madre - enja 2004

Richard Galliano
my recommendation see: other thread

Stefan Hussong
my recommendation: Stefan Hussong plays John Cage: Dream - Denon 1997
(very much other ... )

Toninho Ferragutti
my recommendation: Joao, Laginha, Ferragutti, Norbakken: Mumadji - Universal Music Portugal 2000

recommend not because of >the best of ... < , more >a good start<

Ralf Wacker
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today at the player:
Richard Galliano: french touch - Dreyfus Jazz/Sony Music France 1998
Kenny Barron Trio: Live At Bradley's II / The Perfect Set - Universal Music S.A. France 1996

[Fred K]

I have really enjoyed hearing Joel Guzman with Joe Ely live and on CD. I saw an Joe Ely show last year with only Guzman backing up. Most of the songs they do were rehearsed, Ely wasn't afraid of doing audience requests and other matierial that Guzman didn't know. Guzman didn't have any problems picked up the new pieces and improvising his solos. Guzman plays on these Ely's "Twistin' in the Wind" and "Streets of Sin," The Flatlander's "Now Again," and Los Super Seven's debut and a variety of other Tex/Mex and country CDs. He plays a button accordion.

[Root Doctor]

I love the Cajun accordionist, Marc Savoy. He has a huge sound that's instantly recognizable. His best work can be found on Arhoolie.

[Mike Schwartz]

In recent years, there have been tours billed as Django Reinhardt Festival bands.

I think I'm getting this name correct:
Ludovic Beier who plays a button accordian is an absolute wizard on that instrument. Having seen him on 3 occasions was proof enough for me...

[Brian Olewnick]

Teodoro Anzellotti's interpretations of Satie, on Winter & Winter are wonderful, outdoing most pianistic versions I've heard.

[Gordon B]

Andrea Parkins.
Zeena Parkins.

[me wag]

I really like Stian Carstensen although I've actually only heard him in duo with Iain Ballamy on The Little Radio and a BBC Jazz on 3 broadcast they did together.

[Brian Olewnick]

Alfredo Costa Monteiro

[Dan G]

track down a copy of the Planet Squeezebox set on Ellipsis Arts if you don't have it. A 3 disc sampler of accordion music from around the world, ranging from Pauline Oliveros to a Czech punk band. Great stuff, but I think it is long out of print.

[Cornelis]

Johnny Meyer
I'm surprised he's not mentioned yet.
He died about 7-8 years ago, when He was 80 or so. He lived in Amsterdam, playing also a lot of popular music in all kinds of joints.
Archie Shepp called him the greatest accordeon player of the world....

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by Dan G

track down a copy of the Planet Squeezebox set on Ellipsis Arts if you don't have it. A 3 disc sampler of accordion music from around the world, ranging from Pauline Oliveros to a Czech punk band. Great stuff, but I think it is long out of print.

I found mine through half.com a couple of years ago.

[steve(thelil)]

There's a guy named Bill Schimmel who I've seen a couple of times with Ted Nash's tango/jazz ensemble who is pretty amazing.

[Brian Olewnick]

Originally Posted by steve(thelil)

There's a guy named Bill Schimmel who I've seen a couple of times with Ted Nash's tango/jazz ensemble who is pretty amazing.

Gotta be the same guy who's written some pieces for Klucevsek.

[VIBEr]

Bill was the accordionist in Tom Waits's band of the late 80s, and played on the albums Rain Dogs and Frank's Wild Years. He is also the accordionist who appears in the film Scent of a Woman as a member of the band who plays while Pacino dances the tango.

[Dennis Gonzalez]

Dumb accordion joke:

An accordion player had to run an errand to the bad side of town on his way to a gig. He'd lost his trunk key, so when he ran in to take care of his errand in the bad part of town, he had to leave his accordion on the back seat, covered up with newspapers so as not to attract undue attention to it. But still, he had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, when he went back out to his car, his back window was broken out...now there were two accordions on the back seat.


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I've had an accordion trio/quartet for about 14 years now, Banda de Brujos though I've never recorded the ensemble for a CD. We've scored several PBS documentaries, most notably "The Other Side of the Border", and a radio series about notable Hispanics in the U.S. We were most active during the 5 years or so that I was out of the jazz world. Probably our highest profile gig has been with Oliver Lake at the Dallas Museum of Art in the early 90's. The rest of the time we play a combination of traditional Hispanic music: huapangos, tangos, polkas, and such, and some of my jazz compositions - the best-known being 'Hymn for Julius Hemphill".

The two accordion players who've held the accordion chair in the group are Jesus Vasquez (on button accordion) and Mary Duren (on keyboard accordion). Both great, great accordionists, with very different approaches.

The 3 bass players who've alternated playing for the group are my son Aaron, Alex Camp, and Drew Phelps. My son Stefan often plays drums, and I play trumpet and guitar, and I sing.

Banda de Brujos ca. 1995: Jesus Vasquez, Aaron, and me in Ft. Worth:

[Pete C]

Bill Schimmel is a funny guy. He was on the music faculty of Brooklyn College when I was an undergrad in the early 70s. I believe he's a former monk.

Has anybody seen Steve (Esteban) Jordan? I couldn't catch him when I was in San Antonio because I wasn't there the right day of the week for his regular gig.

[Brian Olewnick]

I always enjoyed Tony Cedras' work in some of Threadgill's band, though I've never heard him, I don't think, in any other context.

[Mike Schwartz]

In the summer of 1975 I saw Art Pepper [the one and only time for me] at the Lighthouse in Hermosa beach, CA

I remember the date because it was about 2 months before my daughter was born.

His 'keyboard' player was a guy who was nothing short of amazing on a Cordovox, and accordian with other electronic possibilities.

I'd love to know that guys name...

[Brian Olewnick]

Tommy Gumina?

[Oger]

Originally Posted by Brian Olewnick

Alfredo Costa Monteiro

Oh yes, kind of transgression of the instrument.

Some others too :

Pascal Contet :
http://www.accordions.com/contet/
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~ps/efi/labels/various/grcd1.html

Ute Volker :
http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/rec/ps/ef.../eman4106.html

Jacques

[VIBEr]

Originally Posted by Mike Schwartz

His 'keyboard' player was a guy who was nothing short of amazing on a Cordovox, and accordian with other electronic possibilities.

I'd love to know that guys name...

It was most probably Frank Marocco, who was playing Cordovox at the time. If he was also playing the bass parts from the button left hand, then it was definitely Frank.

[Oger]

Gus Viseur / old style.

http://www.parisjazzcorner.com/pochs_g/001415.jpg

[Brian Olewnick]

Ooh, and I forgot Ross Bolleter. Bolleter's a fascinating Australian musician (originally referred to me by walto!) who specializes in performing on pianos and accordions that have been...weathered. ie, he'll play a piano that had been abandoned on the open roof of a bar for a decade or an accordion found buried in a basement since 1930. Great idea, imho, and often pretty amazing music. I prefer to think of the instruments as having been cured.

[Frisco]

Originally Posted by Oger

Oh yes, kind of transgression of the instrument.
Some others too :

Pascal Contet :
http://www.accordions.com/contet/
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~ps/efi/labels/various/grcd1.html

Ute Volker :
http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/rec/ps/ef.../eman4106.html

Jacques

Two new ones that are very good with Ute Volker:

"Baggerboot" w/
Gunda Gottschalk - violin/viola
Peter Jacquemyn - double bass
Ute Volker - accordion
--Henceforth Records 102--

"Frutas Azules" by Partita Radicale w/
Ute Volker - accordion
Karola Pasquay - flute
Ortrud Kegel - bass flute
Gunda Gottschalk - violin
Thomas Beimel - viola
--Free Elephant 006--

I also picked up a disc on Col Legno featuring the music of
Toshio Hosokowa, featuring three pieces with the above mentioned
Stefan Hussong. "Sen V" and "Melodia" for solo accordion
and "In die Tiefe der Zeit" for cello, accordion, and string orchestra.

[Mike Schwartz]

Originally Posted by Mike Schwartz

In the summer of 1975 I saw Art Pepper [the one and only time for me] at the Lighthouse in Hermosa beach, CA

I remember the date because it was about 2 months before my daughter was born.

His 'keyboard' player was a guy who was nothing short of amazing on a Cordovox, and accordian with other electronic possibilities.

I'd love to know that guys name...

Thanks Brian & VIBEr for your suggestions.

[jazzy mary]

I love Will Holhauser. One of the most beautiful gigs I've heard in awhile was Will w/ Ron Horton on trumpet and I can't remember the bass player's name, at Barbes.

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by Oger

Gus Viseur / old style.

Yeah, I love him. I mentioned him on the Galliano thread.

[Surfer]

Schultze Gets The Blues, baby.