Re: [Harp-L] Re: Casual Harmonica players...

[Benoît FELTEN <benoit.felten@xxxxxxxxx>]

      The most important thing to me when I listen to any instrumentalist

> is what that person adds to the overall song. I've heard both technically
> brilliant, and casual players whose approach to playing is mainly about
> showing off all they know or don't know, and the song becomes secondary to
> their self-absorbed ego nourishment. In my mind it's all about the "heart
> of
> the song", and that is true no matter how technically brilliant or
> simplistic the playing happens to be. I still remember as a kid when my
> Dad,
> who was Dizzy Gillespie's CPA for many years, asked Dizzy what he felt
> makes
> for a good drum solo. Dizzy explained that he much preferred thematic drum
> solos that pick up on the melody and rhythmic feeling of the piece, rather
> than those that were musically divorced from the song, and more of an
> acrobatic display.
>
>
That's a perfect description of what I like (and dislike) in drum solos...


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