Tommy Dorsey claimed, "Bebop has set music back 20 years."
Louis Armstrong complained that beboppers were playing wrong chords.
A prominent New York critic said, "Bebop sounds to me like a hardware store in an earthquake."
"He plays like somebody is standing on his foot." Miles Davis on Eric Dolphy
One critic said that Monk's music was "like missing the bottom step in the dark."
Critics called Thelonious Monk "the elephant on the keyboard."
Emperor Joseph II on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozars's The Marriage of Figaro, "too many notes, Mozart"
Diana Krall is this decade’s Harry Connick Jr., Krall is popping up everywhere these days at festivals, in clubs and on CD sales and airplay charts. An adequate pianist, she’s a tentative, dry-voiced vocalist whose torpid, sorority-girl versions of classic songs barely measure up to hotel piano bar standards. Her eminence must seem like a slap in the face to vastly more gifted and creative singers, like Rebecca Parris and Ian Shaw.
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