[Harp-L] The best....harp player

[BradKava@xxxxxxx]

Jason Ricci, the best? Come on you guys...we know these are subjective 
decisions and I was just trying to get people with no interest in the instrument a 
reason to read past the first paragraph....

If it were a sports story, I might have said, "Derek Jeter, who many consider 
the best shortstop in the league..."

Or about classical music, "beethoven, who many consider to be the best writer 
of the ninth symphony to date.."

yada yada..it's a journalistic technique to show the subject has some 
cred...and it's true..many people, based on the walk on water reviews I keep seeing 
here, consider mr. ricci to be the best guy out there touring now. Meanwhile, 
others think Kim Wilson is the best. Still others favor Mr. Musselwhite. And 
don't forget Mark Hummel, Magic Dick Jerry Portnoy, Chris (who must have a 
special in with the folks at wikipedia) Michaelek,...yada yada..and every person 
sitting in the jam circle at SPAH this year but that would make for a very long 
lead in to the story...

jason himself told me he considers Paul DeLay to be better...whatever...I 
didn't say he was the best...though, watching him during that Blues Seminar, with 
all those other greats up there, I thought I haven't heard anyone else who 
could touch him---


thanks..

brad kava, 
who some consider the best music critic writing regularly about the harmonica 
  in a mainstream publication because he may be the only one doing 
so...(stories this year on Musselwhite, Magic Dick, Portnoy, Oskar, Ricci, John Nemeth,  
 gary smith, Andy just, rod piazza) No wonder the guitar-playing editor wants 
to fire me.