No, I thing Ellington would belong among the greatest composers of the 20th century. And Armstrong, pop or jazz, however you want to slice it, is the most influential musician of the century. He tough everyone ekse how to swing and how to sing, hwo to scat and bop and put on a show. --jks
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>On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, John Halle wrote:
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> > Bartok, Schoenberg, Berg, Shostakovich, Ives, or the Beatles (for that
> > matter) etc. are not on the LBO map, it seems.
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>It's not that at all. When you asked if Armstrong was the greatest
>musician, we (or at least I) assumed you meant instrumentalist. Jazz is
>the genre that allows musicianship the greatest sway. If you'd said
>composer, then the answers would have been all classical, and if you'd
>asked about the most influential musician, then the answers would have
>been all pop.
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>Michael
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