Hey, fella, I have been a "real" jazz musician since 1975
and I won't drop a long list on you, but many of the guys you have in your jazz record collection I have played with
or for, like Jimmy Smith, Tony Bennett, dozens more. Tell me who you are to tell others how to be real..

Dave Mckenna is a great old-time stride man, but almost all of the more modern cats prefer to play with a live bassist, and use lh bass out of economic necessity or when they can't find a suitable bassist. Maybe you can play better bass lines than the arranger kb , but what about laying your own lines into the arranger if you can do it better? otherwise, why use an arranger kb at all when
you can use a digital piano w/drum machine ? Unless you
are an organist or stride-type player, you are limiting
your pianistic creativity by restricting your lh to bass lines.
That's why I use an arranger..to expand my creativity.


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Miami Mo