It's really amazing. I checked out the album and it's a Bailey album, not a STANDARDS album in the Wynton sense. He's definitely using familar things as a jump off point, but nobody's gonna mistake this for Joe Pass on Pablo, and I don't think Bailey was even remotely hoping for/intending anything like that. The avant-garde world is often as provincial as the rockabilly world. How else can you explain the controversy around this disc? Bailey stepped -- ever so slightly -- out of the job description a bunch of people defined for him, and all this debate rages on. Frankly, I'm sticking to my original theory on this -- the guy bought a beautiful old accoustic instrument, found it suited to music with chords in it, and decided to make a record around the qualities of that instrument. I haven't heard squawking like this since Big Sandy used an electric bass on one song. skip h NP: Ellery eskelin, VANISHING POINT (ho-dad! great record)