In my meander to find a photo of a
Hohner tin whistle I came upon this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq6pHSwpqxs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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strong contender for catch of the week
About Les: http://www.jazzatnoon.com/leslieber/
Wow. He’s really rocking that third octave.
It might be an artifact of the vinyl but there
are times that I’m hard pressed to believe he’s
not whistling just with his lips.
Our own MTGuru isn’t too shabby in that department. I’ve unsuccessfully lobbied him to post some clips. Can I get a witness?
That was some pretty good jazz penny whistle. I’d like to hear more. If I could only find a copy of John Coltrane: the Penny Whistle Tapes…
HeeHee! 
Did you ever get a pic of a hohner?
There is also this fabulous whistle player Fraser Fifield from Scotland who plays jazz on the whistles http://fraserfifield.com/videos/
Greetings
Brigitte
Thanks Impempe!
Bud Shank in Africa over at Electric Jive: http://electricjive.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-11-20T17%3A37%3A00Z&max-results=7
MTGuru mentioned Roland Kirk on the whistle strap thread
so I thought I would look for an appropriate clip.
The magic starts at 2:25 or so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyDcjsK4KwM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Why can’t I get my cowbell and king crab claw to sound like that?
This jumps right to the spot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyDcjsK4KwM#t=2m25s
Wow, It looks like he created his
nosepiece using aluminum foil.
If you can find them there are two albums by Billy Novick: Pennywhistles from Heaven and The New Pennywhistle. Both were LPs and have not been released on CD as far as I know. Some great jazz playing (Scrapple from the Apple for example).
Brian Finnegan covered one of Billy Novick’s tunes, “Skating While the Ice Melts” (Pennywhistles from Heaven) on his first album, When The Party’s Over, Track 8. I asked Brian about it, and he confirmed that Novick is the source.
I’ve started it a few times in sessions, but no takers ever … 
A great player indeed, and a very nice man: I’m lucky to have bought him the Kerry Pro Low F he played on his first 2 albums, and he’s very kind.
In the early 80’s Billy Novick recorded an album called “Pennywhistles from Heaven” where he plays ‘Scrapple from the Apple’ on
one or two whistles - frankly it’s hard to tell - and it was amazing. Unfortunately, there are no videos of him playing whistle
but the record is definitely worth a listen.
Oops - didn’t see the cboody posting above. Repeat
If anyone is interested, the Novick LPs are still available occasionally.
Does anyone know if Billy Novick once played horns with David Bromberg’s big band? …Oh, Sharon!
Feadoggie