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Right, didn't mean to say that he was, just that the knowledgable could name technically better players who weren't anything like as important.
by chernevik 14y ago
Right, didn't mean to say that he was, just that the knowledgable could name technically better players who weren't anything like as important.
- FreakLegion 14y agoAlthough note that the knowledgeable will have different ideas about who's important. You often hear variations of the phrase "an X's X" (i.e. a poet's poet, a director's director), and the same is true for trumpeters. While Miles was a solid player, he couldn't pull amazing melodies out of thin air at breakneck speeds like Clifford Brown[1], didn't have the virtuoso skill of any number of other folks[2], and had kind of a crap tone to boot[3]. 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2rGMGp6gYE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2rGMGp6gYE 2. Sergei Nakariakov, for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNT_eF9lCBY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNT_eF9lCBY. Or Allen Vizzutti for straight up trumpet porn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5SZrLk7Uw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5SZrLk7Uw. 3. Neither warm like Brownie nor powerful, like, say, vintage Louis Prima: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46byB2YGePA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46byB2YGePA (solo starts at 4:25 and continues after the break). At least I think that was Louis Prima. It's been a while since I've seen the liner notes for that one.