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Guy Berger

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Which musicians get confused with each other in your mind?

Mark Dresser/Drew Gress. Also Dave (?) Friesen, who I think is also a bassist

Walter Bishop Jr./Walter Davis Jr. (or are these the same guy? I'm not sure)

Anders Jormin/Arild Andersen

Pat Metheny/Pat Martino

Ron Blake/Ran Blake

Von Freeman/Fred Anderson

Dewey Redman/Dewey Johnson

Clifford Jordan/Duke Jordan

Leo Parker/Leon Parker

Don Wilkerson/Ed Wilkerson

Misha Mengelberg/Albert Mangelsdorff

when I first got into jazz I thought Kenny G & Kenny Garrett were the same dude.

I'll try to think of some more!

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I recently had a conversation with fellow board-member BruceH where we kept mixing up Walter Davis, Jr. and Walter Bishop, Jr.

Though I don't mix them up in my mind, my tongue keeps tripping over Buddy Holly and Billie Holiday, two of my all-time favorites (as well as profound influences on my own musical concepts).

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I hear you on the Walter Davis Jr. / Walter Bishop Jr. And speaking of piano players and names with W's, I always thought there were too many piano players whose last names started with "Wal" (Waller, Walton, Waldron, Wallington...), not to mention all the other W's- Wilson (Teddy, Jack), Williamson, Wyands, Weston, Wellstood, Wiggins, Werner, Wofford, Williams (Mary Lou, James, Johnny, Jessica)... but I'm over it now. :cool:

Also, I used to mix up June Christy and Chris Connor.

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