i thought the funniest part of it was his racial screed against don byron. a weird turnabout on diamond david lee roth's great quote about the reason rock critics preferred elvis costello to VH is because more rock critics looked like EC than VH. he was likely correct. as for the class of females available to wynton, one look at ted nugent's wife will make you wonder if improvising is really the ticket. skip h np: willis jackson -- star bag (Prestige LP) on 4/4/03 3:55 PM, Steve Smith at ssmith36@sprynet.com wrote:
Much more offensive in that Atlantic piece was Stanley Crouch's statement to the effect that jazz critics resent Wynton because "he has access and has had access to a better class of female than they're able to imagine."
That, in combination with Crouch's racially inflammatory screed against Dave Douglas in the April Jazz Times, leads me to believe that whatever slim currency that man once had has long been completely spent.
Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com
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