Freedom And Family Can Help Musicians Do Amazing Things Like Phil Zey Of Germany and Bluegrass Hall of Famer Del McCoury

https://tujuhbelasan.com/ ^ | 1st February, 2023 | Ozguy1945

[Ozguy1945]

Today is director John Ford's 129th birthday.

He said: "..... the sweetest freedom is an honest heart."

2 very different musicians in whom I see honest hearts are German trombone player Phil Zey and Bluegrass Band Leader Del McCoury.

I met Phil at Dieng temple in Central Java Indonesia. He played a bit of Sinatra in the temple and hit a golf ball just outside it. The footage in the main link to this post show Phil leaving the temple. (I published the temple footage 3 years ago today.)

Later on in Australia, I took him up into mountain forests and we found a tunnel under the road with good acoustics where he played his trombone like a didgeridoo.

https://tujuhbelasan.com/2020/06/20/musical-tujuhbelasan-2-zey-play/

Amazing what a free spirit can do.

Del McCoury got a big break with Bill Monroe in 1963 and is still touring with upcoming dates in Virginia, Tennessee, Arizona and California.

His two sons are in his band. That family bond and the glory of bluegrass seems like a wonderful combination.

The first day of February, 2023, ishDel's 84th birthday.

I created this tribute to him with Chicago gender issues theorist Tim Goldich him when Del turned 82: https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2021/02/01/in-two-minds-fox-on-goldich-on-mccoury/

Del credits Earl Scruggs as his big inspiration to give his life to bluegrass: "....... what got me was when my oldest brother got a Flatt and Scruggs record. I was about 11 at the time and, boy, when I heard Earl Scruggs, that was it. That turned a big old light bulb on upstairs. That's when I said, 'That's what I want to do.'"

God Bless Bluegrass (and trombone played like didge)

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

A banjo-trombone duet? I can’t vouch for the popularity, but that would be innovative. Get some accordion backing in there for harmony, and I think they could be onto something.

[Ozguy1945]

“A banjo-trombone duet? I can’t vouch for the popularity, but that would be innovative. Get some accordion backing in there for harmony, and I think they could be onto something.”

Springsteen or Dylan or Iggy Pop as frontman?

[klgator]

A banjo-trombone duet? I can’t vouch for the popularity, but that would be innovative. Get some accordion backing in there for harmony, and I think they could be onto something.

Del McCoury is very innovative. His band recorded an album with Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Bluegrass and Dixieland are very similar in presentation; the instruments are just different. The collaboration worked extremely well. The album is called Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band – American Legacies. Give it a listen.

[klgator]

I lived in New Orleans in the mid-70s, and I listened to a lot of Dixieland Jazz. When I began listening to bluegrass in the early 2000s, I was struck by the similarities in presentation, albeit the instruments were different. It made sense to have a collaboration of the two styles, and this collaboration works!