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From: b~-2000.com (Robert Bonfiglio)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 19:04:49 -0700
Subject: Adler and the diatonic

When I was at Adler's the other day we talked about an "Elvis Medley" pops
piece I am playing with orchestras. For the rock tunes I use a bullet mic
and Filisko Marine Bands and I use a chromatic on the ballads.

Adler told me he never learned to play blues harp and said he stuck with
Gershwin, etc. I realized that there is mostly a generational gap for
Adler like my Mother thinks of blues as big band type tunes.

My Mom always wants me to do a blues recording, but she does not mean
Little Walter type blues. She means "Night Train" and "Moanin' Low" and
"Blues in the Night" and "Body and Soul" and "St. Louis Blues" in other
words, big band jazz blues tunes. She finds my kind of blues playing to be
just sound effects or very crude or primitive because it has no "melody"
and no arrangement.

So I think Adler's opinions are colored more by time and what he knows than
by malice. 20 years from now, somebody will call some rap tune a great
blues tune and you all will jump down their throat.

Harmonically yours,

BONFIGLIO
http://www.robertbonfiglio.com