
Jerry Portnoy was born in Chicago in 1943 and brought up in the vicinity of the Maxwell Street market, where his father owned a rug store. There, among the haggling customers and traders, many of the original blues players who had drifted to Chicago from the south would set up and play for whatever loose change was dropped at their feet. Even so, it was only at the age of 25, and after failed attempts to master several other instruments, that Portnoy discovered his aptitude for playing the harmonica.
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Lullaby of Birdland
So Slow
Doodlin'
Once Too Often
Mood Room Boogie
Canadian Sunset
Lazy
Endless Road
Stormy Weather
Sentimental Journey
Money
Jug Band Waltz
You Rascal You
Blues In A Dream
Home Run Hitter
Shoulda Coulda Woulda
Lookin' For My Baby
Holding the Harmonica
Misty
Introduction
She Makes Me
Real Gone Guy
you're so smart
Poison Kisses
Chord Rhythm
Changeover Scale
Runnin' With The Blues
I Realize
Tongue Blocking
E March
E shuffle
Can't Remember To Forget
One Chance
E March With Harp
A Blues with Harp
Simple Songs
Charge It
Syncopating Chords
Lip Blocking
E Shuffle With Harp
E Blues With Harp
Boogies - 3 Positions
B Shuffle
A Shuffle with Harp
B Minor Blues With Harp
Bends with Syncopating Chords
Back Rhythm
Pursed Lips
Upper Register Blow Bends
Octaves
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