There's been a lot a bashing of individual singers here in the last few days and frankly I don't see the point. I suspect that a lot of the bashing comes from the envy of someone else's success.
I once saw Don Cherry, the trumpeter who played a pocket trumpet, at the Village Vanguard. Besides playing trumpet, he also played a stringed instrument that would not stay in tune and whose only possible use would be to decorate a wall. He spent maybe five minutes, in the middle of a set, attempting to tune that piece of garbage! The audience waited patiently, acting as if nothing bizarre was happening. I didn't particularly like Don's performance, but I went home with the wonderful idea that if he could get away with his shenanigans (at the Vanguard, no less) then there must be room in the world for _my music.
To your own success, John Link
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