I guess. It's him or Charlie Parker, if we consider both instrumental virtuosity and compositional ability. If we drop the virtuosity requirement, Ellington goes into mix, along with Stravinsky.
--jks
>
>In a promo for the series Burns refers to Louis Armstrong as
>"unquestionably the greatest musician of the 20th century." (I think I got
>the quote right.)
>
>I'm curious as to whether this position has become conventional wisdom
>among the cross section of the intelligentia represented here.
>
>John Halle
>
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