[atlantaprog] Re: prog

From: "Jeff Blanks" <jblanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Respectfully, I think prog musicians are at least as good technically as
> >jazz and classical ones.  I really don't think how long it's been around
> >makes anything any better.
>
> Higher standards do, though.
>
> Local critic Russell Shaw (anyone remember him?) used to write for
> *Down Beat*, the jazz mag.  He was doing a review of one of ELP's
> *Works* albums when he wondered aloud about the attention paid to
> Keith Emerson as some sort of world-class virtuoso.  He begged to
> differ; I can't remember the exact wording, but he suggested that you
> could find plenty of equally skilled players all over the music
> schools of our universities.  I tend to think he's fairly correct in
> that assessment--I might put him a cut or two above the college
> students.
>
That's probably a fair assessment.  Of course, those college students didn't
come up with Tarkus either.  :-)  Plus I've never seen a university-level
keyboardist stab his instrument with knives-- a sure sign of virtuosity, eh?

Also, these claims about Emerson being world-class were made by others,
right?  Hopefully not implied by Emerson himself in interviews?

Brian
LO

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