[78-L] The smile factor (was: 78-L Kessel WAS Tatum)

[Malcolm Rockwell]

You know, I think musical taste for me comes down to what makes me 
smile. If I find myself grinning from ear to ear for no apparent reason 
upon hearing something (new, old, no matter) then I'm more apt to go 
digging around to find more. It's really that simple.
Oscar Peterson makes me grin. Erroll Garner makes me grin. Tatum don't 
make me grin.
Bennie Nawahi makes me grin. Sol Hoopii does too. Frank Ferera rarely does.
Lou Reed makes me grin. So does Sid Vicious ("My Way"). Don McLean don't 
make me grin.
Easy.
Now, why I am I grinning (or not)? That's a lot more complex.
Malcolm

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On 4/29/2014 5:57 AM, Joe Scott wrote:
> "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
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