awseyler@... wrote:
I agree with DR. How can ANYONE think Conti is any better than Bruno. Conti plays the SAME thing over and over and over. I think he does the Johnny Smith thing in EVERY song. It is sickening! There is no imagination there, he has played for years and has developed his own licks over given progressions, but he uses the same ones in all of his tunes. I have reservations for Bruno also, but Bruno is WAY ahead of Conti in my opinion.
Bruno may certainly be more musical to some ears, but the point I was making focused more on raw chops. As it was stated:
"Jimmy Bruno also has a
lightening speed with super tone .. there are no young
players with that kind of nimble virtuosity and that
tone .. why? becuaser tone comes with years"
I just think Bruno takes tunes a little too fast at times, it has nothing to do with who is necessarily "better". Bruno could notch it back a hair on tempo and sound so much more relaxed on fast tunes. Perhaps Conti is too staged, but the chops are insane. I saw the label "lightening speed" and thought, so there must also be a super-lightening and a super-duper-lightening. Just my thoughts at that moment. Amazing chops come easy for those few who have a gift to exploit. The rest have to work really hard to get to develop that "nimble virtousity".
Ray
