| "Dizzy always loved to go "mano a mano" with all the young lions...Arturo, Faddis..."
that's because they were all jocking his style and couldn't (or weren't) playing themselves. i remember being at a clifford brown jazz festival a few years ago; let's see, i know faddis was there, i know nicolas payton was there, i think brecker was there, too...man, they battled near the end of the night's show--->brecker definitely did his thing, but faddis and payton were saying more. but the thing is faddis kept playing diz stuff, going high and fast at every turn, meanwhile payton kept it paced and didn't elevate that much. payton kept playing intricacies, more like a swordsman or knifeman, while faddis kept trying to blast the stage down with a machine gun or grenade. needless to say, i, my friend matt, and donald byrd whom we were with that day, were more enthused by payton, then brecker, then the young student whose name i can't remember, with faddis and all of his busy dizzy running and screaming pulling up last.
i know diz wouldn't have lost the battle playing his stuff. but only diz can win a battle playing his stuff. and i tell you this, faddis won't cut me playing diz stuff either.
you know why? because i'm the 8th chef, 7th sun of lee morgan the cooker. (btw, i think that was the same day i met lee morgan's brother. i met clifford's brother there, too, one year. both were great honors for me, especially being introduced by donald byrd)
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the 8th chef <--> 7th sun of lee morgan the cooker
bach tr300 that just appeared one day after my last two horns suddenly disappeared
a musket is just as lethal as a machine gun |