I suspect that busking is more about personality than virtuosity. If Thelonious Monk were alive, hale, and amenable (and capable with a piano!) to perfrming a similar experiment, I suspect he'd garner complaints and be asked to vacate the premises!
Louis Armstrong, on the other hand, would take home a hat full!
'A damned ill-conditioned sort of an ape. It had a can of ale at every pot-house on the road, and is reeling drunk. "
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