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From: "Samuel J. Gravina"
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:28:37 -0500
Subject: Adler's opinions

M Kitich wrote:
>Interestingling enough Sonny Terry is one of the few diatonics players,
>maybe the only one?, that I know of that Larry Adler respected, since Adler
>makes particular reference to him in his autobiography, at the same time
>downriding diatonic players in general as relying too much on bent notes
>etc.

It's interesting praise since Adler in his autobiography says
something like, 'all blues players are terrible, except Bob Dylan
who's worse'. Adler is a great musician and for Terry to win his
praise says a lot. I wonder if Adler gave many of the diatonic
players a fair listen. I bet that it is just not his kind of music.
Nobody does Gershwin on diatonic.

Adler considers himself the greatest chromatic player alive and Terry
the greatest diatonic player. (At the time his book was written,
Terry is no longer alive).

Sam