Oh, he was doing some Blindfold Test thing and they played him a cut off that album and he went batshit, talking about how "they shit on Ellington! They shit on Duke!" or some looney-tooney crap like that. Same as his infamous comments about Braxton in a similar context many years earlier, only his sense of "outrage" was even more f-ed up because he'd had more than enough time to figure stuff out and obviously hadn't.
God, what an idiot. Doesn't look like I'll be checking out his music any time soon.
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Well hey - my "professional respect" for Phil Woods is quite high. As a saxophonist, he's unquestionably a master, and he's one of the greatest lead altoists in the history of the music. But I'm not a fan of his work after he came back to America in the early 70s, and as far as what he "thinks" about post-Ornette music, he can go fuck himself as far as I'm concerned.