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Gentlemen, please, pick up your machetes

This post over at DTM has created quite a stir, with great responses in the comments as well as an interesting post from Nate Chinen.

I’ve thrown my two cents in the comments section , and I definitely come down on the side of not being afraid to let a legend know when their work stinks. But I have to wonder, especially when talking about living legends like Shorter or Hancock, if we would ever be satisfied by anything less than ground-breaking work.

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