Re: What Is Hip?

[SteveC <A440@voyageronline.net>]

Patrick Bianchi wrote:

>                  I personally don't think busier is a word that could be
> synonamous with capable....Just because you can play lots-o-stuff really
> fast, it don't mean you are any more/less capable than a person who plays
> less stuff and a little slower...It is just a different approach to
> different styles of music..The best example I could relate to is Thelonious
> Monk...Playing burning bop licks or any of Trane's stuff on a RB ballad or
> whatever would be very inapropriate to the style unless you were actually
> playing any bop tunes or Countdown or 26-2 etc...But then again some people
> seem to really dig that "out of context" thing....
> 
> >.Whatever the reason, my two cents worth of "hip" definitely leans to Booker.