As I say, I'm going to close my mind to the external noise. Heaven knows Marsalis does not like a lot of 'stuff'. Miles Davis was almost as bad. Closed minds. There is a book I read at the library, (well most of it...). I found this comment about it on-line.

"Yet, according to veteran jazz trumpeter and composer Randall Sandke, a meddlesome reverse-racism colors the jazz world today. In his thoughtful, deeply-researched new book, Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz, Sandke traces the devolution of jazz from a welcoming, porous, joyously-American musical artform to a divisive, conformist, social engineering tool.." *

Charles Winecoff - Wynton Marsalis, Doris Day, Reverse Racism – and All That Jazz

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So I'm going for the music, not the politics, I will however view the musical selection as an extension of WM's outlook, and see if he breaks any barriers. I would prefer my jazz at 3 a.m. in a smoke filled room with lots of adult beverages, sweat, warts and attempts to resolve because heck somewhere it's a note away. However take what you can get, you never know what day you won't get it at all.

That's my point so.

John Conley
Musica est vita