Lets take some questions from the floor. At midnight, cats would just come in and they'd bring their axes, and he would just let them play. They'd talk about it, and whoever was going to throw down, he'd welcome them on the show. Cats would always stop in and he'd be able to just interview them at the drop of a hat. Now you have a situation where even NPR starts to follow the money trail rather than follow the trail of the music.
Dollars really drive so many of the decisions.
On a jazz radio station, he can't play Bird. He can't play Bud Powell. He can't play Mingus. I mean, come on. It's people following the money.