Les Taylor
American musical artist
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Sep 5, 2026
Jazz on a Saturday – Episode 8
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40:44Les TaylorGUEST
My favourite sousaphone player was Country Washburn with, we'll say, Chink Martin and Country Washburn, both my favourites.
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40:55Les TaylorGUEST
Not forgetting Cyrus and Claire and those, Quinn Wilson and some of those other top sousaphone players and tuba players, but...
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41:07Les TaylorGUEST
These fellas in Germany have really captured some excellent ability and quality and tone that they're not far behind when you realise that we are now into 83 and possibly at a later date we'll be able to bring you up to date with the bands as they are featured in 1980 and 81 and 82. and realized that all is not lost.
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41:39Les TaylorGUEST
Once we thought that our bands were turning out a very, very excellent quality in jazz, whether it be Chicago style, New Orleans style, or whatever, we realized that the Europeans, after the war, it took a long while before any of them really they started to become interested in jazz to the point where they are all racing off to Breda in Holland and followed a week later by the festival at Ghent in Belgium.
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42:16Les TaylorGUEST
And, of course, it's just across the ditch from the UK and many UK bands are featured there, but not forgetting that there are bands that come from Germany, the Netherlands, which are next door, and so on, and Belgium.
13 MINS LATER
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
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1:24LucyHOST
Hey, Taylor. Welcome to God Bless March Madness. Oh, it's so exciting. It's presented by Priceline. Dreaming about that trip? Book it and go to your happy price with Priceline.
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1:37Les TaylorGUEST
Lucy, what I think happened is, they looked into the shipping container. They saw Chris Cody, Mike Ryan, Billy Gill, and Jeremy Tasha looking back at them and was like, "Anybody else? Can anybody else talk college basketball?" Dan doesn't know that I'm doing this, and I wanna start off by saying, huge win for Carolina, first off. Joe Linardi, Seth Davis, Seth Greenberg, John Fanta, John Rothstein, and every West Virginia government official, dead to me. Lucy, it's been a brutal couple days for West Virginia.
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5:20LucyHOST
I don't know if there's ever been a, a tournament release where so many coaches have been upset about one seeds, which I know it's only two out of the four, but that's a high number that it's happened twice. Usually people are pretty pleased to be a one seed. So, it started with UCLA getting the number one overall seed. Um, they only have, what, two losses on the ear to USC both times. Um, and then South Carolina got the second overall seed. So Dawn Saley was super, super upset, saying that South Carolina deserved the number one overall seed. I test, she's absolutely right, correct. What South Carolina did after that UCONN loss, which was awful, it was a terrible loss. I haven't seen South Carolina lose like that in a very long time. They've completely turned it around. They are playing like the best team in the country. And then you saw that in the SEC Championship, where Texas, like, didn't stand a chance. It was all South Carolina the entire time. So, Dawn Saley comes out and she's like, "We should be the number one overall seed." Like, "This is, this is messed up." And then she kind of pulled, like, a little bit what Alabama did when they were left out of the playoff and was like, "We're not gonna schedule tough teams anymore if we're not gonna be rewarded for that." She was like, okay, and I do agree that South Carolina is the best team in this field. They probably should have been the number one overall seed. However, UCLA was the number one overall seed. UCLA has a head-to-head win over South Carolina. And when they have a head-to-head win over, like, a team, you're like, "Ugh, girl, I, I think you're right, but they do have a head-to-head win over you." And it's hard to argue with that. And so, I do think it's totally valid. I think they're the best team in the tournament. I think they're going to win the whole thing this year, especially because I think that Dawn Saley definitely believes her team is the best overall team in this field. I think she's doing a little bit of the Kirby Smart thing, you know? Everybody's doubting you. They didn't even think you were the best team in the country. No one believes in you, South Carolina Women's Basketball. And so now that there's, like, somewhat of a chip on the shoulder for South Carolina, I think it's pretty much over for everybody else. Um, at the same time, USC, the other one, the one in California, they were like, "We don't like our number one seed." I think this one's a little bit more valid, especially because USC leads the series against UCLA two to one, and the first two times they played, USC was really dominant over UCLA in a way that's made me kind of nervous about UCLA's tournament chances. Um, and so USC got the fourth overall highest seed, which just doesn't really sit right when they have those head-to-head wins over UCLA. I understand that UCLA beat them at the Big 10 Championship game, but that game was dominated by USC for a large chunk of it. Like, UCLA just came back and kinda had one of those moments. And so, what's really upsetting is that USC got UCONN as the two seed in their, in their region, and nobody, like... Every two seed is good, but UCONN is-... a particularly good two seed. As we talked about just a little bit ago, Yukon beat the brakes off South Carolina. Like, this is not your average two seed, and so the fans are super upset because it's like JuJu Page is a matchup you get in the final four, not the elite eight. So USC is unhappy about their seeding. The other USC is unhappy about their seeding. Texas and UCLA, pretty quiet. They seem to be pleased with everything. (laughs)
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8:36Les TaylorGUEST
Someone in my ear just said that Dan found out about this and he wants me out of the studio immediately, so I'll leave with one final stat. In the first 13 NCAA men's basketball tournaments that have featured the first four, at least one first four team has survived until the round of 32 in all but one of those seasons. So if you're looking for that first four team that will most likely advance past Thursday and Friday, all bias aside, it's gotta be North Carolina.
