<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <br><div><div>On Dec 7, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Samuel Choy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">I don't know what it is about jazz, but I hear out of tune pianos all the time in jazz recordings. Maybe they think that the extra beats adds to the ambiance?</font></p> </blockquote><br></div><div>It's because jazz musicians as a class do not stand up for themselves...even worse than piano tuners. The players that demanded an in-tune piano got it....Duke, Count Basie, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Hank Jones, most of the young modern guys. Dave Grusin must have been metaphorically smoking crack the day the Charlie Brown theme was recorded; then to have to listen to that shit thousands of times in your life....not my idea of fun.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>DA</div><br></body></html>