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In a message dated 2/27/05 1:20:20 PM, info@krispenhartung.com writes: << funny, I remember Bradford Marsalis calling Cecil's stuff self indulgent bullshit on the Ken Burns history of jazz series. >> Yea, I remember being bothered by his remark, I think it was regarding something about Cecil expecting the audience to do some work and be prepared for difficult listening. Branford's scorn and dismissiveness seemed to ignore the history of jazz development and to be intellectually lazy or perhaps just anti-intellectual. So art is supposed to be instantly familiar and accessible, otherwise it is "elitist" or merely "pretentious"? He apparently is happy to promote a lowest common denominator approach that panders to an audience and is comfortable dissing more adventurous approaches. sigh BobC http://www.cdbaby.com/rpcollier http://trundlebox.iuma.com http://tinyurl.com/yuru7