you one big biased dummy

>I once heard a saxophonist (can't think of his name) on the
>Ken Burns jazz documentary say when he and others 1st heard
>Charlie Parker, they knew this was the direction the music was
>to go in and that he didn't care if he sounded exactly like
>Bird because that was his intent.
>
>He went on to say that the measure of any artist is the impact
>their music has on their contemporaries...now ask
>yourself...between the "Pied Pedo" and D'angelo, who has had
>the most imitators?
>
>Honestly, what serious artists past or present can you see a
>direct Kells influence?
>
>D'angelo was the innovator behind the genre, "neo-soul"...but
>more importantly, he was the catalyst of r&b/soul artists in
>the mid 90s coming along and started to incorporate live
>instrumention driven music again instead of the watered down
>*souless* music.
>
>And you keep talking abt D'angelo mumbling when he sings...let
>me just tell you that there was another artist who was famous
>for "mumbling,"...you might know of him: his name was JAMES
>BROWN