...which as generalized a statement as Miles only playing slow ones.
I'm not sure what you mean by that.
But:
I didn't say I don't like Booker, I like his playing a lot in fact. I merely noted that there really isn't that much variation in Ervin's solos. There have been previous discussion in which it was pointed out by various people. The last time people reacted rather shocked at this observation, as if someone pissed up the pope's leg. That's what the little wink was all about.
On AAJ Deep basically said the same thing but he put it a bit, well... "Deep-ish" and dissed the man for it. Nobody else did really.
It's like with Lee Morgan towards the end of his career. Almost all of his solos were filled with the same licks then. That for me doesn't diminish the joy the music brings me though. But if I want to hear him revel in invention and freshness, I put on early Lee.
If I want to hear steam-roller, make way here *I*come, tenor playing, I put on Ervin and I know that is precisely what I am going to get.