Jazz

[Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer]

>I guess. It's him [Armstrong] 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
>

What about Coltrane? While Bird Parker was a great musician (the Jimi
Hendrix of the alto sax), he was terribly conventional in choice of
arrangements -- his string music being the most obvious example. Coltrane
was a true innovator who kept pushing and breaking the form. "The Father And
The Son And The Holy Ghost" is as mad an arrangement as I've ever heard.
Perhaps it will be understood by 2057.

DP