<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_6649">Probably one expert asked another and yet another one was asked -</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_6689">and the result wasn't "who should we ask?" but "who will we be blamed for not inviting?"</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_6708" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_6804" dir="ltr">to adapt a line and rhythm from an unforgettable TV ad's punchline delivered by Slim Gaillard <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_6735" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_6736" dir="ltr">"ARE YOU A REGISTERED APPORTIONER OF OFFICIAL BLAME?"</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_6885" dir="ltr">So far as I'm aware it was for rather marketing than musical reasons that musicians deemed "modern" did not advertise affinities with antecedents -- a problem for which Art Hodes unequivocally blamed Leonard Feather. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_6886" dir="ltr">Almost sixty years ago Eric Dolphy was reported to have asked someone not to mention having seen him -- Dolphy! -- jamming in Harlem with men already then veterans. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_6933" dir="ltr">Perhaps there are better senators etc. than the one so friendly when he chatted to me during my stay on a student exchange in Kentucky -- chatted until an aide whispered in his ear that my tartan (plaid, he said) tie did mean a Scottish connection, but one which (beside how young I was) meant I had no vote. The man was wasting his own time, but I found it hilarious. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_7075" dir="ltr">Slap that guy's back between the shoulderblades <br></div><div dir="ltr">and you'll bruise your palm on the key he's wound up with..</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_7076" dir="ltr">WRITE TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES, OKOMUSICAL AMERICA !!!!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_7074" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_7073" dir="ltr">Robert R. Calder <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459664014517_6890" dir="ltr"> <br></div></div></body></html>