Quite frankly, the best player willing to be seen playing an arranger on the planet right now...!
I'll take him in spades over any of the other factory demonstrators any day and twice on Sundays! Guys got chops, energy, and isn't a fat old guy playing fat old guy music to fat old guys (and their poor wives dragged out for the torture value!).
Coming from a fat old guy, I can't praise him any higher..!
And yes, if I played like that to some of my crowds, they'd go wild. As long as I didn't do it ALL NIGHT LONG! Only wish I could!
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An arranger is just a tool. What matters is what you build with it..!