The drummer for lots of 60's Blue Note sessions and for some important Sonny Rollins and Paul Bley bands is a composer and a bandleader, too, and he has made some good, mainstream, saxophone-heavy music in recent years.
"It's entertaining and it's a good family, mainstream thing that also shows people that, you know what, there is hope out there.
"Other times, when we're talking about good mainstream sitcoms for BBC1, there seems to be a real lack of enthusiasm.
The food was generally good mainstream American fare, if not exciting.
Nefertiti and Pustervik are good mainstream venues which have been around for ages with somewhat alternative bookings.
But the course of romcom, like that of true love, can't be expected to run smooth – and we can't afford to be snobby about very good mainstream entertainment.
Yet he leaves the clear impression he would rather his students went on to take good, honest jobs in manufacturing or marketing, good mainstream stuff, as they did when Kellogg was just another midwestern M.B.A. mill.
On American politics (though maybe not on American culture), for ill and for good, mainstream movies follow green lights, not red lights.
"This is a good time for mainstream Top 40 radio," Mr. Ross said.
One might expect the old guard to resent the whippersnapper with his phone ("a Samsung; I don't own an actual camera"), but he says he has a good relationship with mainstream writers.
