But he was a jazz musician with the kind of unquenchable imagination and good-humoured grace to keep making mainstream-to-bop materials sound fresh – and he had a generosity of spirit that always sought to share them, whether as an educator or as a selfless ensemble player.
There have long been various programs aimed at making mainstream theater accessible to wider audiences at lower prices.
In financial terms, too, game production is now very similar to making mainstream movies.
The silicon-on-insulator technology is one of a series of advances in manufacturing that have been applied to making mainstream computer chips, using a technology known as complementary metal oxide semiconductor, or C.M.O.S.
Would you tell them to stop making mainstream music?
While others try to make mainstream services that appeal to casual listeners, Spotify's always been aimed at hardcore music fans.
Members of the coalition are also at loggerheads: the energy secretary, Chris Huhne, a Liberal Democrat, has accused his cabinet colleague Lady Warsi of turning to "Goebbels-like propaganda" over claims AV would make mainstream parties pander to the BNP.
Others, like Rick Rubin and his WHT LBLS imprint, had come before to try to make mainstream techno happen and failed.
Public journalism is meant to make mainstream folk more confident that, if they bother to deliberate and to express opinions, someone will pay attention.
But Apple's update only threatens to make mainstream what was already a growing existential threat to any publisher hoping advertising online will support their business.
Do you want to make "Mainstream" Hardcore, early-hardcore, UK Hardcore, Frenchcore, Terrorcore ? Listen to as many tracks that fit in the category.
