Re: [Harp-L] Is Junior Wells over-rated?

[Mike Wilbur <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about Mulatu Astatke ?
Maybe we need the Federal Government to design a rating scale or maybe the 
United Nations or....

Mike Wilbur


On Apr 4, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> JersiMuse wrote:
>> 
>> I agree : I would say that both Junior Wells & Little Walter are over rated ah ah.
>> 
>> Come on, we're not speaking about musicians equivalent to Mozart, Bach, Ravel, Stravinsky, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, etc
>> 
> 
> I'm familiar with the works of all the artists named above, and I'd stack Little Walter up against any of them.
> 
> Saying that the premier improviser in the blues is inferior to Mozart or Charlie Parker is saying, in effect, that the blues--the most influential music of the 20th century--is inferior music.  I don't buy that.
> 
> But clearly this comment was meant to send the flames high, which it will.
> 
> Thanks and regards, Richard Hunter
> 
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