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Originally Posted by Brian H. Smout  Hi All,
I bought all his early quartet stuff on the Mercury vinyl and loved it. Bought his last cd with a copper flugel on it - hated it. It was like listening to nursery rhymes with under pitch high notes. Sad, really sad.
Cheers,
Brian |
My friend,like all professions,you have to take the good with the bad.
This problem generally arise when musicians rush to sing record contracts that call for XX amount of albums per year and in their attempt to fulfill contractual agreements they record and release stuff they themselves later regret.
Further,you have credible musical writers who at times would use a pseudonym to assist in promoting awful stuff.
On the other side of the coin,you have musicians who produce and manage their own stuff but who are finding difficulty with distribution.
During the early '90s on the AOL boards, I was introduced to trumpet recordings by current day players like Al Molina,Mike Vax,Vern Thompson,Bob Montgomery and I'll stack their offerings and/or talent to some with contracts who are basically flavor of the month/quarter.
In parting,I hope your nursery rhymes remarks does not apply to
'April In Paris',by The Count or Hank Crawford's take of Mr.Hubbard's
'Little Sunflower.'
Live well and don't let them see you sweat the small details.