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"Jazz band" is probably not a very good way to classify the musicians Patton is with. Bill Laswell, legendary experimental producer, and Milford Graves, free-improvising master drummer, indeed take influence from jazz, but this is much more of an avant-garde flavor than a jazz flavor. Just because there's a contrabass on stage doesn't mean it's indicative of a jazz band. --24.44.143.131 (talk) 09:51, 24 December 2008 (UTC)