Art Pepper, why he was the best?

[jazz1]

For quite a while I've been playing the latest releases, the Blue Notes, the Verves,

the ECM's , all the big names, and I must admit I do enjoy some of it, but something is missing, then today I played "Thursday night" from the Art Pepper "At the Village Vanguard set " the second track is called "Goodbye" and from the first note that Art blows you know that something special is happening, "emotion"

As Art Pepper said in the liner notes.

I felt I had exposed myself too nakedly. I was afraid that my listeners would not be willing tp accept such pure emotion. But I have to be honest and say that I think this is the most direct communication I've ever attempted.

I am very proud of it!!

Art rest in peace, but after all this is the secret, emotion = communication.

I cannot think of one artist today that can play this way, technically they are maybe better than Art ever was, but then again Billie also did not have the best instrument, but she also did it "communicate"

Not many achieved this, and these are the great, Miles, Bill Evans, Coltrane, and sometimes I can hear it in Brad Meldhau, but otherwise most of today's musicians leave me cold.