[NewMusic] breathtakingly bad

[David Slusser]

On Jul 2, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Phillip Greenlief wrote:
> I was enjoying reading this thread on the road but never had time to
> comment on it. Then I got out of email range and when I returned to
> Slusser's comment, I found he had said many things I would have  
> said. I
> also enjoyed Hadju's book on Strayhorn, so I was also disappointed to
> read the article on JZ.
>
> Mostly I didn't enjoy reading Hadju's piece because it was so  
> painful to
> read it. Painful in that it was clear this guy was writing about
> something he hated - despite his attempts at objectivity, there's  
> venom
> floating in the most innocent of his sentences in this article...

...figured PG was out of town since he hadn't weighed in.

Wanted to add that when I printed out Hadju's article for reference,
I saw the header I hadn't noticed before.  In big bold letters:

TZADICK  (instead of Tzadik)

(now that's nasty)