Who is the greatest musician of all time

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 26 Jan 2005 1:19 pm

I AM!!

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Bob Smith · Post by **Bob Smith** » 26 Jan 2005 1:20 pm

Ok hereya go.........David Bowie

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 26 Jan 2005 2:19 pm

It must be either Mantovani, or else Richard Clayderman...

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 26 Jan 2005 2:28 pm

Enya? Buckwheat? Mortimer Snerd? Bill Clinton?

ETHEL SMITH... Ya that's the ticket !!

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 26 Jan 2005 2:39 pm

Assuming that J. S. Bach could play as well as he wrote, I don't believe that he can be surpassed. The new Emerson String Quartet's recording of The Art of the Fugue is evidence that Bach's music is as relevant today as ever. Other music from that period sounds dated. Bach's music could have been written yesterday, it sounds that fresh!

Randy Beavers played a Bach piece as a steel guitar solo at the Southwest show earlier this month. It was the most advanced music of the show, in my opinion. The various jazz standards don't even come close.

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basilh · Post by **basilh** » 26 Jan 2005 2:47 pm

The best DUO of all time..
http://www.waikiki-islanders.com/assets/multimedia/mp3/Jonathan%20And%20Darlene's%20Greatest%20Hits/03%20Take%20The%20A%20Train.mp3

Baz

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 26 Jan 2005 2:47 pm

b0b's right. I change my vote to Randy Beavers.

Craig A Davidson · Post by **Craig A Davidson** » 26 Jan 2005 4:33 pm

David Gilmour

Gene H. Brown · Post by **Gene H. Brown** » 26 Jan 2005 4:35 pm

Tiny Tim!

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 26 Jan 2005 4:36 pm

The guy in the Harmonicats - you know, the one with the big bass harmonica.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 26 Jan 2005 4:39 pm

PS I was going to chime in my vote for Bach too but then thought, wait a minute, that's a very western culture bias. Who's to say that the complex classical music of india hasn't produced a musician of all-time greatness? But really, music isn't a contest. Someone playing on a street corner who only knows three chords but plays them with all his heart and soul can be as great as Bach in his or her power to move listeners.

Rick McDuffie · Post by **Rick McDuffie** » 26 Jan 2005 4:42 pm

David Donald- I might vote for JIMMY Smith!

Man, I heard some Jack McDuff stuff on my local jazz station yesterday that was just killer. I do love a B3.

And how 'bout Joey DeFrancesco??

Rick

paul mccartney[This message was edited by Rick McDuffie on 26 January 2005 at 04:47 PM.]

Rick McDuffie · Post by **Rick McDuffie** » 26 Jan 2005 5:15 pm

I certainly do not mean to take anything away from J.S. Bach. I love the chorales and things like "Jesu". I'm not too much on the inventions and fugues... they're intellectually amusing but they don't "emote" in the same way... it's harder to make real music out of something that has so many notes.

I also enjoy the music of his sons, C.P.E. and P.D.Q. Bach.[This message was edited by Rick McDuffie on 26 January 2005 at 05:16 PM.]

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 26 Jan 2005 5:45 pm

Can I change my vote to-----
LYNN ANDERSON!!!!

Tracy Sheehan · Post by **Tracy Sheehan** » 26 Jan 2005 10:00 pm

Violinist Jascha Heifest.
And Alvin i agree Paganni would have to be in there some where.I have a video of Heifest and most of his recordings.I watched his hands for veins to see if he was really hunan.LOL.They slowed the flim down to show his hands in slow motion and still miss most of what he does.When he first played carnegie hall many of the worlds top vilonist quit.Not to take any thing away from Itzak or any one else but Heifest was called a machine.His playing has never been equaled, let alone topped so why i call him the best.He had no peers.End of music history lesson.LOL[This message was edited by Tracy Sheehan on 01 February 2005 at 01:08 AM.][This message was edited by Tracy Sheehan on 01 February 2005 at 01:28 AM.]

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 26 Jan 2005 10:02 pm

P.D.Q. Bach.

Yup!

Henry Nagle · Post by **Henry Nagle** » 26 Jan 2005 10:20 pm

Jimmy Buffett

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 27 Jan 2005 1:41 am

For me "The greatest musician of all time" would have to be someone more than a composer who preformed his/her own compositions.
It would have to be someone that has completely mastered their instrument, composed musical works, and performed pieces by other composers with passion and conviction.

One I can think of would be someone like Nicolò Paganini. He could bring people to tears or make them dance all in the same passage. As a composer, many of his pieces are still being played 200 year later. His 24 caprices are still considered to be the most complicated violin works ever written.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 27 Jan 2005 2:49 am

I think the lady singing in that DUO was the one that caught the C train on Fire yesterday.

Man that is scarey stuff.

Glyn Bone · Post by **Glyn Bone** » 27 Jan 2005 12:47 pm

Well, I saw this topic and my first answer was going to be ...`ME`......but I just sat down and listened to some stuff I recorded....darn! back to the woodpile...eeeerh...shed.

Glyndwr

Mark Lind-Hanson · Post by **Mark Lind-Hanson** » 28 Jan 2005 9:00 am

I am going to say Ravi Shankar for this age-
Mozart and Beethoven (tie) for theirs
Why Ravi? For one thing, he has the entire Eastern system in his head, and for another, absolutely radiates the essence of music in everything in his life. If Bach was the spiritual magnet for music in that age before Mozart & BEethoven, Shankar is the anchor of true music in this age. Not only is he a master in the Eastern forms but he has innate and thorough knowledge of the western form as well, and a very open mind on what is meaningful (plus some strong opinions about what makes something good, for him.) I doubt you would ever find anyone of his ilk coming along anytime soon for another 150 years... He is just a monster in the field, & to be unaware of his contributions is to diminish oneself (I think)- he has the spiritual mind nonpariel.
I COULD say some things about Lennon & McCartney being the greatest songwriters of this age, but don't forget, George Harrison was every bit as talented (just not quite as prolific.)

Tay Joslin · Post by **Tay Joslin** » 28 Jan 2005 10:59 am

"Mr. Telecaster", Don Rich!

Tay Joslin · Post by **Tay Joslin** » 28 Jan 2005 11:01 am

CHECK OUT www.buddywoodward.net/gallery/donrich

Several rare photographs of Ol' Don and the Buckaroos; also, Mr. Jerry Brightman has a tribute page for Ol' Don at www.slidestation.com that is superb!

THANKS!

-Tay Joslin

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 28 Jan 2005 9:13 pm

Stravinsky.

Most people only associate Stravinsky with his 3 modern masterpieces, but he went through a period where he wrote in the earlier style of Mozart, and his work from that period is just as wonderful as his more modern work. Check out his Suite Itialienne, also known as Pulcinella. you'd swear it was written 250 years ago.

Janice Brooks · Post by **Janice Brooks** » 29 Jan 2005 6:49 am

A little consideration for Les Paul?