(04-08-2022, 12:07 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(04-06-2022, 07:39 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote: I love the trumpet. Check out "Give it One", by Maynard Ferguson from MF Horn 2. Your ears will bleed.

I hear you.  Any instrument, you can find players with extraordinary talent who can "make your ears bleed".  I'm not denying the talent, I'm just saying I don't enjoy listening to that kind of things as much as I like the expressiveness and improvisation of a guy like Miles Davis.  Davis is not overrated.  That'd be like saying, Eddie Van Halen played louder and faster than Duane Allman, ergo, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest and Duane Allman is overrated.  It's not true.  They're both great in their own way.

Agreed. Miles is not my cup of tea, except maybe when working late late at nite. I was referring more to the way critics consistently rate him, as the best trumpet player to ever live, which is pretty disrespectful to 4,000 years of historical musicians and musicianship. Is he the best of this era within the particular style he's chosen? Perhaps.

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