This or That?

[HutchFan]

I'm resurrecting a thread from the long-defunct AAJ board.  It's simple idea, but it sometimes prompted some good discussion.  And it's always interesting to see what people's preferences are, how they compare to your own.  Since this is in the Miscellaneous Music section, let's limit ourselves to music -- but it doesn't necessarily have to be jazz.  Some examples:

- Rollins or Coltrane? (the classic duality)
- Dylan or Joni? (the classic duality, singer-songwriter edition)
- The Stones or The Who? (the classic duality, rock edition)
- Dewey Redman or Don Redman? (wordplay is always a plus)
- Atlantic Jazz in the 60s or Atlantic Jazz in the 70s?  (the label thing, the decade thing)

When you make a choice, you can provide a rationale, if you'd like -- but it's not required.  Then you provide the next set of choices, and so it goes, leapfrogging along. 

 

I'll go first:

Chu Berry or Herschel Evans?

 

[BillF]

Chu Berry

[HutchFan]

Bill -- Now that you've answered, you've also got to propose another pair.  

[JSngry]

Jesus or Paul?

[jazzbo]

Paul/Saul definitely. Without one many would know little of the other.

[jazzbo]

Pumpkin Spice or hazelnut?

[sidewinder]

Harry Barris or Barry Harris?

[JSngry]

Billy Sol Estes or Estes Kefauver?

[Dan Gould]

56 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Billy Sol Estes or Estes Kefauver?

If I understand, one chooses, then proposes a new one?

Therefore: Billy Sol Estes (I don't know him but I know who Kefauver was from history/Poli Sci.)

So:

Percy France

or

Percy, France

[Bluesnik]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

Harry Barris

I had friends who had a neighbor called Barris, by surname. That, in the 70s.

Edited August 18, 2021 by Bluesnik

[BillF]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Bill -- Now that you've answered, you've also got to propose another pair.  

The Duke or The Count

[Niko]

The Duke

John McLaughlin or Stanley Clarke?

 

 

 

 

[HutchFan]

Stanley Clarke - for his early 70s stuff.

 

Ira Sullivan or Red Rodney?

 

[Rabshakeh]

Should there be an answer to these questions?

[HutchFan]

Probably not.  

 

How about what I asked earlier:  Ira Sullivan or Red Rodney?

 

 

[JSngry]

Part 1 or Part 2?

 

[danasgoodstuff]

On two part singles, I most often prefer part two.

I'll take Ira Sullivan over the great Red Rodney on purely musical terms, but Red has a more interesting life story than damned near anyone and I once saw him play the 'I played with Bird card' without actually playing it, if you know what I mean.

Coleman Hawkins or Lester Young?

[BillF]

3 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:

On two part singles, I most often prefer part two.

I'll take Ira Sullivan over the great Red Rodney on purely musical terms, but Red has a more interesting life story than damned near anyone and I once saw him play the 'I played with Bird card' without actually playing it, if you know what I mean.

Coleman Hawkins or Lester Young?

Lester

And Basie, to answer my own question.

And now:

Allen Eager or Brew Moore?

[danasgoodstuff]

41 minutes ago, BillF said:

Lester

And Basie, to answer my own question.

And now:

Allen Eager or Brew Moore?

Uhm, no matter if you go with Eager or Moore, the answer is still Lester.

[Rabshakeh]

Keith Jarrett or Chick Corea?

[JSngry]

1 minute ago, Rabshakeh said:

Keith Jarrett or Chick Corea?

Paul Bley

Now I DO get to ask, right?

Dave Tough or Don Lamond?

[Peter Friedman]

Hutch Fan, I thought this was meant to be a serious thread, but after reading most of the posts it has become just silliness that does interest me. Too bad, I thought it might be an interesting thread.

[BillF]

14 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Paul Bley

Now I DO get to ask, right?

Dave Tough or Don Lamond?

Don Lamond (Those bombs! )

Staying with drummers: Kenny Clarke or Connie Kay?

[Rabshakeh]

Ooh. Roach or Elvin?

[BillF]

2 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Ooh. Roach or Elvin?

Previous question needs to be answered before posing new question.