Excellent Accordion Playing

[john]

Accordion Solo

Pretty amazing really

[Lazz]

Pretty amazing really

Absolutely!

And about time we honoured the great accordion players of the world.

Someone here (Maz?) a while back expressed the general popular distaste for accordion.

And indeed the stomach-steinway provokes much merriment in many places.

As in:

Q: "What do you call a couple of dozen accordians at the bottom of the ocean?"

A: "A start."

But squeeze-boxes come in many shapes and sizes and varieties, and the degree of grooviness depends on who is playing.

The instrument played by the young man in the clip above is officially a classical Russian unit called the bajan.

The funky end of the spectrum can be represented by the "King of Zydeco".

He's dead now.

In this clip he is a young man:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEdk5nq-iBk

[Lazz]

You should also maybe check out the fiery folkloric Bulgar whos fingers have allegedly been clocked in at 20 notes per second.

I thought only saxophone players were allowed to do that.

If you have a taste for the wild and crazy and fantastic, then you might like traditional Bulgarian celebratory music.

Hope so:

[Lazz]

Then there is the Argentinean contingent with the bandoneon.

Here's one special guy rehearsing a new tune at home with his kids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQnAtfaqlOQ

And another, more famous, now dead, specialist tango geezer,

Astor Piazzola - "Death Of An Angel":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvEkpJl2aM4

[Lazz]

And at the more youthful and all-encompassing modern end of the European spectrum we have the irrepressible Uwe Steger

He not only cuts the classical accordion repertoire with huge aplomb and unconcealed emjoyment:

He also gets out there on the extremes of tekno-logical innovation and electrickery:

[john]

great links Lazz! thanks

[Bridget Murphy]

On 9/23/2010 at 2:46 AM, Lazz said:

And at the more youthful and all-encompassing modern end of the European spectrum we have the irrepressible Uwe Steger

 

He not only cuts the classical accordion repertoire with huge aplomb and unconcealed emjoyment:

 

He also gets out there on the extremes of tekno-logical innovation and electrickery:

 

Amazing work with the button accordion. And the lighting too.