Russell Carlson      John Corbett      Julian Cowley      Stefan Gijssels      Walter Horn      Hugh Jarrid      Chris Kelsey      Budd Kopman      Jon Morgan      Harvey Pekar      Alexandre Pierrepont      Massimo Ricci      Derek Taylor      Dan Warburton      Kevin Whitehead     

publications   DownBeat

personal contacts   We have met many times and my trio was one of the first groups he booked into his Empty Bottle series. He is polite and intelligent and knowledgeable about many genres of music. No fan of mine, however.

reviewed   None.

bias   An academic who, I think, studied early free-jazz musicians for his doctoral work, has a love of outsider musicians and, surprising to me, faux outsiders as well.

reviewership   Well informed but his prose is remarkably old-school for someone so smitten with the avant-garde. 3.5 upturned noses.

musicianship   Enthusiastic, but unskilled guitarist 1.5 upturned noses

aggregate rating   2.5 upturned noses.