[78-L] Happy 100th, Prez! - unknown alternate Decca take

Milan P Milovanovic milanpmilovanovic4 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 29 19:35:08 PDT 2009




> As an aside, Pres went from being an innovator (regardless of
> instrument) to a great tenor player to a not-so-great tenor player to a
> so-so tenor player and, finally a poor tenor player.
>
>      Julian Vein

Pardon me, but I wouldn't say so. Throughout his career he has few downfalls 
(especially on some studio recordings) due to physicall/drinking problem, 
but to speak of him as poor tenor player is critically unfair and not so 
reasonable. And cliche for itself. 




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