Studio By Day...

[Paolo Valladolid <pvallado@waynesworld.ucsd.edu>]

> I'll point you to Thomas Roady's excellent comments. Like Thomas, I have 
>no
> problem playing and producing pop tunes by day and playing "avant-guarde"
> free jazz by night.  Additionally, I would suggest that most of the 
>people
> who make such comments about "soulless studio musicians" have no idea 
>what
> is involved in being a good studio musician.  You can't look at guys like

Funny that we were just talking on the Stick list about Pete Cosey.
He's done studio sessions for blues and R&B artists.   Yet at the same
time he made those devastating albums with Miles Davis (Pangaea, Agharta,
etc.) and went on to replace Bill Frisell in Power Tools, among other
things.  He even joined Chicago's AACM (Association for the Advancement
of Creative Musicians).

Cheers,
Paolo