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San Francisco Bay Area, CA |
ABOUT WINSLOW...plays nearly every type of harmonica, and combines disparate styles of music in unlikely ways, such as accompanying a French-Canadian fiddle tune with Kind of Blue modal harmonies. He teaches at the Jazzschool in Berkeley with fellow members of the San Francisco Harmonica Ensemble addition to appearing with the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers.
Author of the highly regarded book Harmonica for Dummies, Winslow has been on a mission to find and transmit harmonica information ever since he picked up the harmonica as a teenager and couldn't find a teacher. He has published the magazine HIP -- The Harmonica Information Publication, transcribed John Popper's harmonica solos to musical notation and tab for the songbook to the Blues Traveler CD four, and contributed to Howard Levy's Out of the Box instructional DVD. In addition to teaching privately and at the Jazzschool, Winslow takes an active role in organizing the annual SPAH harmonica convention. He contributes a regular column on chromatic harmonica to the online harmonica magazine harmonicasessions.com, and has contributed articles to such harmonica magazines as Harmonica World, Harmonica CURRENTLY TEACHING IN: San Francisco Bay Area FACE TO FACE LESSONS: YES OVER THE PHONE LESSONS: YES SKYPE-BASED LESSONS: NOT YET |