About perfection

I belong to the less is more school of aesthetics. I respond to under-statement, clean lines, phrasing, timing, more than to embellishments and histrionics. The Billie Holiday school of singing, not the Ella Fitzgerald scat-singing school. Hence my choices below of Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Little Walter.

Less is more is the minority school. Most performers like to go for it in a big way. More is more. You can have it. I'll take the quiet intricate finger-picking of Mississippi John Hurt any day.