I dloaded one album called "Kerry Music" by Denis Doody from Ceol Alainn, which happens to be a solo accordion album. It has raised my interest in listening to accordion as a solo instrument. So I am looking for suggestions of artists/albums on the same.
Nobody explained to me growing up, why I should or shouldn't learn Latin.
Nobody explained to me growing up, why I should or shouldn't listen to Joe Cooley.
He seemed to weave his way between known as a master of the box and having any recordings made of his playing. Just wasn't the thing to do, I guess, in the circles he moved in.
What about Christy MacNamara, Tony MacMahon or Jackie Daly? Joe Burke - sure there's loads. Get to Willie Clancy week if you can and go to the 'box concert', an eye opener of different styles.
I think the only recording is the one I have provided the link for...., you can listen to the all the tracks start to finish, not a bad surprise for a Monday morning.
& a further sampling of names you can chase up under 'recordings' -
Joe Derrane, Jerry O'Brien, Johnny O'Leary , Johnny Connolly, Paudie O'Connor, Martin O'Connor, Tom Doherty, John Brosnan - etc.
It would also be a good idea to learn something about that term 'accordion', which comes in different flavours, buttons and keys like a piano, from a four bass to hundreds, and various traditions, not forgetting dear old Jimmy Shand in Scotland, and others, and Bob Cann in England, and others, and elsewhere across Europe and North America - and Australasia, South America and East of Britain and across to China, where they have a big stake in making free reed instruments. And let's not foget the box in Africa...
Hey C, you beat me to it ! glad to read you !
tradguy, you don't mention if it's button box or another type of accordion you're looking for, as C points... I'll give you some other names : for Piano accordion in Irish and scottish music, try Phil Cunningham, and also Karen Tweed (one of the best IMO).
I'm more in scottish music, so have a go at Fergie McDonald (button box)...
If you're looking for accordion music all over the world, here's a nice 3-cd compilation : "Planet Squeezebox", issued by Ellipsis arts... in 1995. It comes with a booklet with nice infos about the history of the instrument, and it shows how it's played all around the world....
Thanks all, for the pointers. Ceolachan, yes, accordions caught my interest recently, so I am already in the proces sof learning more about them, right now, I can't distinguish much in the sounds of button v/s key ones.
Thanks Nikita!
And अनिच्चा, you know Hindi, it seems, I am from India :P (and thanks for the link too!)
And thanks to Nikita too, more to consider. I had to keep something over for others. I'll have to checkout "Planet Squeezebox", thanks. But, here's one more for the piano accordion -
The Joe Cooley CD has some interviews in it that are pretty interesting and shed some light on his popularity.
Amazing energy in his play. And it seems that personally-wise, he was a bit of a character also. He must have been a 'force to be reckoned with' if someone was playin in with him.
- from the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and the Labrador Straits"
Musicians: Calvin Payne, John Marshall, Kevin Bennett, Luke Payne
with the producer Daniel Payne on guitar http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/3501
there are some really lovely solo box recordings out there......
a brand-new one is also by a player i believe is out of kerry, danny o'mahoney.....really a lovely box man....a b/c player out of kerry, which is somewhat out of the norm, as that county's boxers are often c#/d-ers....write-up with clip here.... http://www.custysmusic.com/pid-505-info.html
here is a small sample of other great solo box cds:
jackie daly, music of sliabh luachra
a traditional recording of greatness, plain and simple....
dean warner, "the northern box".....interestingly, this northern PA man chose east clare/east galway-esque stuff played in a manner redolent of that ambience.....really a nice recording...
there are so many.....if you like the mighty b/c rolling style, billy mccomiskey has done two solo cds, and joe burke has done a slwe of them. if you like the mighty c#/d style, along with jacky daly and andrew mac, there are solo cds by joe derrane, and a lovely one by conor keane of west clare.....
Accordion
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I dloaded one album called "Kerry Music" by Denis Doody from Ceol Alainn, which happens to be a solo accordion album. It has raised my interest in listening to accordion as a solo instrument. So I am looking for suggestions of artists/albums on the same.
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Ananya
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by tradguy
Re: Accordion
Nobody explained to me growing up, why I should or shouldn't learn Latin.
Nobody explained to me growing up, why I should or shouldn't listen to Joe Cooley.
Two different questions with the same answer..
http://www.deezer.com/en/#music/joe-cooley/cooley-494462
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by Theirlandais
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Yes, but there's very little in the way of recordings of Joe Cooley - just the http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/211
He seemed to weave his way between known as a master of the box and having any recordings made of his playing. Just wasn't the thing to do, I guess, in the circles he moved in.
What about Christy MacNamara, Tony MacMahon or Jackie Daly? Joe Burke - sure there's loads. Get to Willie Clancy week if you can and go to the 'box concert', an eye opener of different styles.
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by the wounded hussar
Re: Accordion
I think the only recording is the one I have provided the link for...., you can listen to the all the tracks start to finish, not a bad surprise for a Monday morning.
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by Theirlandais
Re: Accordion
Unfortunately its not accessible from my location :(
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by tradguy
Re: Accordions and accordions and accordions - various sizes colours and keys
A couple of samplers first -
"Melodeon Greats"
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/3591
"The Big Squeeze"
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/1617
& a further sampling of names you can chase up under 'recordings' -
Joe Derrane, Jerry O'Brien, Johnny O'Leary , Johnny Connolly, Paudie O'Connor, Martin O'Connor, Tom Doherty, John Brosnan - etc.
It would also be a good idea to learn something about that term 'accordion', which comes in different flavours, buttons and keys like a piano, from a four bass to hundreds, and various traditions, not forgetting dear old Jimmy Shand in Scotland, and others, and Bob Cann in England, and others, and elsewhere across Europe and North America - and Australasia, South America and East of Britain and across to China, where they have a big stake in making free reed instruments. And let's not foget the box in Africa...
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by ceolachan
Ceol Alainn
Denis Doody is grand, but Ceol Alainn also has another long-out-of-circulation album worth chasing up, Jimmy Doyle & Dan O'Leary -
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/1247
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by ceolachan
Re: Accordion
http://irishbox.blogspot.com/
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by ∅
CD: "Global Accordion: Early Recordings"
WERGO, a division of Schott Music & Media, SM 1623 2
http://www.wergo.de/shop/en_UK/3/show,108702.html
http://www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/globalac.htm
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by ceolachan
Irish Box Blogspot ~
Nice link अनिच्चा!
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by ceolachan
Re: Accordion
Hey C, you beat me to it ! glad to read you !
tradguy, you don't mention if it's button box or another type of accordion you're looking for, as C points... I'll give you some other names : for Piano accordion in Irish and scottish music, try Phil Cunningham, and also Karen Tweed (one of the best IMO).
I'm more in scottish music, so have a go at Fergie McDonald (button box)...
If you're looking for accordion music all over the world, here's a nice 3-cd compilation : "Planet Squeezebox", issued by Ellipsis arts... in 1995. It comes with a booklet with nice infos about the history of the instrument, and it shows how it's played all around the world....
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by Nikita Pfister
Re: Accordion
Thanks all, for the pointers. Ceolachan, yes, accordions caught my interest recently, so I am already in the proces sof learning more about them, right now, I can't distinguish much in the sounds of button v/s key ones.
(and thanks for the link too!)
Thanks Nikita!
And अनिच्चा, you know Hindi, it seems, I am from India :P
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by tradguy
Re: Accordion
Nice one tradguy, your most welcome...
I'll have to checkout "Planet Squeezebox", thanks. But, here's one more for the piano accordion -
And thanks to Nikita too, more to consider. I had to keep something over for others.
"Alan (piano accordion) & John Kelly (flute): Fourmilehouse"
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/319
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by ceolachan
you're ~
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by ceolachan
Re: Accordion
The Joe Cooley CD has some interviews in it that are pretty interesting and shed some light on his popularity.
Amazing energy in his play. And it seems that personally-wise, he was a bit of a character also. He must have been a 'force to be reckoned with' if someone was playin in with him.
That Irish blogspot is a good resource btw.
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by zippydw
Re: Accordion
Jackie Daly, "Music From Sliabh Luachra" is a great one. All solo accordion, and a couple solo concertina tracks as well.
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by PatrickJWK
Re: Accordion
oh will check that out as well...
btw, ceolachan, your profile page is quite informative! thnx for that too!
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by tradguy
Re: Accordion
Patrick
< Jackie Daly, "Music From Sliabh Luachra" is a great one >
I really agree with that -
jim,,,
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by FIDDLE4
"Music from Sliabh Luachra"
Ditto, a favourite, including the rest of that series too...
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/212/comments
# Posted on May 23rd 2011 by ceolachan
Re: Accordion
Excellent suggestions above. I'll add two:
Mick Mulcahy (Joe Cooley's true heir, IMHO)
http://celticgrooves.homestead.com/CG_Mulcahy_Mick.html
And Danny O'Mahony. Superb.
http://www.dannyomahony.com/?page_id=7
# Posted on May 24th 2011 by pennhorse
"The Four Stops: Traditional Accordion Music -
- from the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and the Labrador Straits"
Musicians: Calvin Payne, John Marshall, Kevin Bennett, Luke Payne
with the producer Daniel Payne on guitar
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/3501
# Posted on May 25th 2011 by ceolachan
Re: Accordion
there are some really lovely solo box recordings out there......
a brand-new one is also by a player i believe is out of kerry, danny o'mahoney.....really a lovely box man....a b/c player out of kerry, which is somewhat out of the norm, as that county's boxers are often c#/d-ers....write-up with clip here....
http://www.custysmusic.com/pid-505-info.html
here is a small sample of other great solo box cds:
jackie daly, music of sliabh luachra
a traditional recording of greatness, plain and simple....
johnny mccarthy of ennis, "solo run"
http://celticgrooves.homestead.com/CG_McCarthy_Johnny.html
gorgeous, haunting, relaxed-pace minor-modaly east clare/ bobby casey-inspired stuff...
peter carberry, "traditional irish music from co. longford"--link with clip here:
http://www.custysmusic.com/pid-409-info.html
another haunting relaxed-speed outing....
andrew macnamara, "dawn".....lovely clare swing....
paudie o'connor
http://celticgrooves.homestead.com/cg_oconnor_paudie.html
another kerry b/c man. elegant, lovely playing....
dean warner, "the northern box".....interestingly, this northern PA man chose east clare/east galway-esque stuff played in a manner redolent of that ambience.....really a nice recording...
there are so many.....if you like the mighty b/c rolling style, billy mccomiskey has done two solo cds, and joe burke has done a slwe of them. if you like the mighty c#/d style, along with jacky daly and andrew mac, there are solo cds by joe derrane, and a lovely one by conor keane of west clare.....
that's just a few....
# Posted on May 25th 2011 by ceemonster
Accordion - Seamus Begley
No Seamus Begley yet :-o
Top Man, though the only person I ever heard of playing a D/D# Box
# Posted on May 26th 2011 by del_c
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there's also
josephine marsh's first solo cd (the second is more band-ish)
"hand-me-downs," by mary rafferty
"the galway rambler," by ena o'brien
# Posted on May 27th 2011 by ceemonster
Re: Accordion
one unreal pa man is alan kelly. His quartet is unbelievable.
# Posted on June 16th 2011 by raff2011