[Harp-L] Jazz players

[George Brooks <gbrooks1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Bonfiglio wrote:

>We are leaving out one the best straight ahead
>jazz players - Hendrik Meurkens....

Hoo boy.  I've gotten some mail offlist, too, naming others that should 
have been included as being able to play no-excuses jazz.  I never 
meant to create a list of worthy jazz button chromatic players.  I 
named three, and said I doubt that we could come up with another 
forty-seven names (the point I was trying to make being that saxophone 
players able to play complex jazz at a similar level probably number in 
the hundreds, at least).

Yes, Toots.  Yes, Hendrik.  And others, about whom it should not be 
assumed that I am expressing any opinion by not naming them here (or in 
my previous posts on this subject).  They are admirable.  My only point 
was that they are scarce compared to players of other instruments more 
readily adapted to the playing of this type of music, such as 
saxophone, trumpet, and piano.

George