[78-L] 78-L Kessel WAS Tatum

[Joe Scott]

"I can't understand why Kessel was singled out for[...] adulation."In the context of his earlier work and jazz, never have understood that either. Chuck Wayne and Jim Hall, or Sonny Sharrock for that matter (in contrast to Kessel, and Pass, and Barnes, and e.g. Oscar Peterson), seem to be, uh, actually doing anything interesting that I can notice and like and keep liking (which I don't think is raising the bar too high for bothering to put music on). It kind of ties in with what you were saying about doing things another pro musician can notice as intellectually interesting, vs. something that only happens to be musically beautiful. (In some of these cases including Pass. Not Peterson I don't think, I don't think he was good at either.)But it's all personal taste. If someone says he prefers trumpet played a little off-pitch, and thus he prefers Gillespie to Navarro, he isn't wrong about what he likes.Joseph Scott