http://eveningmelancholy.com/melancholiai/2007/01/17/vice-prez/ just a few words before I go Sat, 19 May 2012 10:11:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://eveningmelancholy.com/melancholiai/2007/01/17/vice-prez/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Trombonlogy Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:19:08 +0000 http://eveningmelancholy.com/melancholiai/?p=110#comment-237 It's difficult to criticize a guy for choosing as his model and mentor so great a musician as Lester Young, but it's always made me a little nervous to listen to Quinichette. If your whole musical identity is based on imitating someone else, no matter how accurately, then what <strong>is</strong> your identity? I know Pres referred to Quinichette as "Lady Q," so he must have had some appreciation for what he was doing, but I still feel that Lester would have been the first to say that you need to have your own sound, your own story to tell. It’s difficult to criticize a guy for choosing as his model and mentor so great a musician as Lester Young, but it’s always made me a little nervous to listen to Quinichette. If your whole musical identity is based on imitating someone else, no matter how accurately, then what is your identity? I know Pres referred to Quinichette as “Lady Q,” so he must have had some appreciation for what he was doing, but I still feel that Lester would have been the first to say that you need to have your own sound, your own story to tell.

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