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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

Not to get back into the discussion again, but. . .

. . . I appreciate the way you've been defending Yuja's playing against the individual negative points from Paul and Josh. I just wanted to highlight your comments, "Even by classical standards one can't say one version is "wrong" and the other right. Now by jazz standards it is utterly absurd to make such claims of right or wrong." Those comments are "right on" in my book.

It's funny, because there are some listeners who try to enforce what they believe to be certain stylistic standards on various types of music, be it jazz, Baroque, or whatever. The idea that there can only be a certain type of rhythmic lilt in a performance of a jazz piece is not that far off from the idea that you should never perform Baroque music with more than what I would call a dessicated amount of vibrato (to return to one of my favorite topics)!

In any case, these stylistic enforcer type listeners remind me of acolytes of an organization in which only a tiny few are deemed worthy enough to enter! ;-)

Now of course, I'm sure there's a threshold of stylistic inappropriateness at which both you and I might join the ranks of Josh and Paul, but basically, my beef with them is that they seem to be perceiving the jazz style too narrowly. I'll mention again my lack of experience in the jazz idiom, but you seem to have a much better grasp of it than I do. In any case, I guess the question really is, where is that stylistic threshold? I think it's different for every listener. That's one reason why people get so passionate about their musical preferences.


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