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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: RE: Not too bad posted by Mike K on September 1, 2016 at 08:16:15:
Harmonic skills would go to Hancock easily in my mind. Then there's the question of whether technical display and touch are limited by skill or deliberately by taste. Herbie played the Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony when he was 12 years old. He's not a technical lightweight, even though that might not be immediately apparent to some because he's not cast in the Tatum mold the way Oscar was.
Compositional chops? The winner there should be obvious.
Herbie would probably be in my personal top 5. Oscar would not. That's not a slam against Oscar, who was an amazing pianist. That said, I find more value in a player who helped shaped the vocabulary of the music in a big way than I do in a guy who sounds more or less like Tatum recorded in hi fi. It ain't all about fireworks.
dh
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- What kinda chops are we talking about? - D Harvey 11:39:14 09/01/16 (4)
- Totally agree - kavakidd 14:03:46 09/02/16 (0)
- Perfect Analysys, DH! - erik 07:13:54 09/02/16 (2)
- Hey there stranger! - D Harvey 09:29:10 09/02/16 (1)
- RE: Hey there stranger! - erik 13:53:40 09/02/16 (0)
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