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From: "Barry B. Bean"
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 96 08:46:55 -0500
Subject: Re: Larry Adler Autobiography

On Mon, 9 Sep 1996 22:01:18 -0400 (EDT), Steven Levine wrote:

>Adler is a very funny
>writer. I have heard that he is very arrogant but I really didn't get
>that from his book. He did say that most blues, rock, folk, etc. players
>don't play the instrument correctly and can't play all of the missing
>notes.

I know an awful lot of older chromo players who focus on standards,
light jazz, light classical, etc. who have said the same to thing to
me (They said "present company excepted", but I imagine they were
simply being polite). It seems to be a general bias. Of course, I
can't count how many blues and rock players I know who hear these
guys and say "nice technique, but no soul."

Its the same thing I hear bouncing back and forth between jazz gigs
and blues gigs. Jazzbeaux say the blues guys can't play so they stick
to teh simple stuff, and bluesers argue that the jazzers miss the
point and have no oomph.

Are cross-genre players realy a rarity, or am I just keeping bad
company?

BBB (lifelong token)


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