One of today's most original harmonica player, David Herzhaft was has been raised between blues and country-music. His father Gerard Herzhaft is a highly regarded specialist on these music (a dozen of books published and translated around the world). As a kid David’s “heroes” were fenton robinson, joe maphis, byther smith and so on ... As a teenager David met Johnny Shines, Eddie Campbell, Charlie Musselwhite ...
Very early though he was attracted by jazz and due to his work on the overblow technique he developped his own style with time, bands, encounterings (Howard Levy, Joe Porcaro ...)
Since 1991 he performed in many blues, bluegrass, country and jazz bands in most festivals of the same kinds in France, Europe and Canada. With those bands (bluegrass burger, country postal, freeandise ...) he recorded about a dozen cds. In 2001 he made his first solo record on Fremeaux and Associés label "Des Mots d'Harmo". Then he recorded, directed and composed the music of Catfish Blues a cartoon broadcasted on French National TV that went out on DVD (Warner) and was awarded 1st prize at the Animation Festival of Chicago in 2006 !
Still performing in various blues and country bands, David now aims at developping and playing more of his own music. He has also written 5 methods, four of which were published by the biggest french editor HL Music. More are to be published soon.
«You got a very good album here, everything feels very well produced »
Robert Hadley (Ray Charles, Diana Krall ...)
“ It was a cool Session, Fun Tune ! ” Frank Gambale
“Thanks for letting me be part of your project” Brian Fullen (Shania Twain, Larry Calrton ...)
“ David is a fantastic harmonica player ! ” Joe Porcaro (Madonna, Pavarotti ...)
“ Fantastic playing man !” Eric Bibb
"Great Playing !" Charlie McCoy
“David Herzhaft’s harp playing is excellent ! Very tasteful and exciting. He’s got great technique and it’s a pleasure to hear his ideas so well stated on the harmonica” Charlie Musselwhite