Monday, October 23, 2017

Category error

Pandora thinks ultra high energy jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson and pop trumpeter Herb Alpert are "similar artists". I have a certain not entirely rational affection for The Tijuana Brass, but that's like calling Charlie Parker and Kenny G "similar artists" because both are saxophonists.

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