The Logic Off Topic list

>Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:
>
>>   Thoughts from the mind of Santi Galán, 06-12-2001:
>>
>>  >I think Tony Banks is the only keys player that can be compared with
>>  the
>>  >jazz guys at least in compositional terms (harmonies...).
>>
>>  Somehow TB never managed to impress me that much...
>>
>>  >And I think you're rigth that the rock keyboardists use to get the
>>  >rigth sounds, but with a poor playing level...how curious.
>>
>>  Emerson?  Wakeman?  Poor players...? :-)
>>
>>  --
>
>Maybe it's more to do with production ideology. Maybe the rock guys have
>more sweetening applied in the production process, and the jazz guys
>want to retain as much as they can of the original performance.

As frank zappa put it.  Rock is less composition and more feel and 
Timbre oriented music than other genres.  It only makes sense that 
rock musicians are better at crafting sounds.  That's what drives the 
genre.

Of course all this assumes that Herbie's sounds truly are inferior 
and not exactly what he was looking for artistically.  Which is 
somewhat unprovable.