With just an acoustic guitar and a harmonica, and both Magic Dick and Ng singing, there is a depth and breadth to their sound that belies the minimalistic instrumentation. We are a duo by choice because we are minimalists. I don’t think of Shun as an accompanist for me, nor does he think that way about me. In Shun’s case, it is both as a soloist and a supremely different accompanist. Mostly, our tunes are arranged to highlight our strengths. “They would be brief and in the context of the arrangement. “It is not completely unanchored,” Magic Dick says. Jazz infuses the duo’s stage show with elements of improvisation but always in the framework of the arrangements. I was into that before I was into rock ’n’ roll. I was into that music before I ever heard Chicago-style blues. Jazz trumpet players and saxophone players, ever since the beginning, as well. I knew that I loved blues, Chicago-style blues. “I didn’t actually start playing the harp, in earnest, until I was 21,” he says and cites Muddy Waters and Sonny Terry as major influences. Magic Dick’s formal musical training began on the trumpet, which he still plays today. It was a toy to me, but I was thrilled with it.” Magic Dick, born Richard Salwitz, was given a Hohner Marine Band harmonica by his mother when he was 3 years old and sick with the flu. The album also includes original songs and versions of “Let The Good Times Roll,” Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” and “Whammer Jammer,” Magic Dick’s signature tune during his J. They have never heard the trip that we take people on.” They have never heard anything quite like it. People are blown away with what we do at our shows. Then, it’s like, ‘Whoa.’ They had no idea. If they haven’t heard Shun at all, they don’t really know what this pairing is going to be like until they actually hear an example. They know what I’m like because of my work with The J. Before people hear what we sound like, they don’t imagine it. “Shun brings quite an element - I think we both do - of surprise to what we are doing. “That one is a good example of the nature of what we are going after and how we do things differently,” Magic Dick says. In 2016, the duo released their debut album “About Time,” which features an imaginative reworking of James Brown’s “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag.”
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