Wes Montgomery's Compromise - Playing Smooth Jazz to be profitable?

[sully75]

Suffering for your art is one thing, making your family suffer for it is another. Wes, like everyone else, had to feed his family, buy new shoes and school clothes, etc etc. I cannot criticize him for that, in any way. Millions of people have done much worse things to feed their families. I have.

As for Metheny, I cannot listen to him. I've tried, and I can't. Perhaps that's a character flaw, but my tastes are what they are. Life is too short to spend time listening to music I don't like.

Check this out. If you really don't like this, I think you can say you really don't like Pat. I think it's a great blues performance. I wonder if there's someone who has listened to every single PM album and been like "yeah, these are all equally great". Other than PM maybe.

[sgosnell]

I readily admit that I have not listened to every PM recording. I'm not prepared to listen to hours of music I don't like just to find one song I do. I listen to what I like, when I can.

[sully75]

I readily admit that I have not listened to every PM recording. I'm not prepared to listen to hours of music I don't like just to find one song I do. I listen to what I like, when I can.

Just check out that track.

[sgosnell]

I listened to it, and I still think I can say that I don't like PM's playing.