what do you expect from Leno....Chris Botti is the only jazz musician on a late night talk show in many years.

Nope. Bernie Williams was making his rounds not too long ago promoting his latest release.

Botti was the "house" musician for the Carolyn Rhea late night show for a while. As for guest spots, I've seen John Pizzarelli and Esperanza Spalding over the past year and a half.

Are you kidding me? Let's recall Kevin Eubanks, Vicki Randle, Smitty Smith, Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland, Will Lee, Stan Sargeant, "Tain" Watts, Grady Tate, Hiram Bullock, David Sanborn, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc..........................

I'm sure it's been a while since Kenny Kirkland made an appearance. Didn't he pass away some years ago?

Kenny passed away a while ago. If I got it right, a third of of musicians on late night tv are jazz oriented.

In my very very personal oppinion.....i really could care less about leno's oppinion......i never liked the guy!!!

Hey...it'd be nice if we could just get a word from Jay Leno on just what he meant. We should give him the benefit of the doubt.

His off the cuff mark could have been an innocent attempt to just be funny...with no idea that he was coming off as ignorant.

Still, the best way to clear things up and to smooth things over, is to have Leno get the band booked so they themselves can show him and the world(maybe by playing the 2009 arrangement of Shaker Song or a Down the Wire track)-that they are alive and thriving in 2009 and 2010.

While we are at it, let's email Austin City Limits and get SPYRO GYRA booked for a show celebrating the bands 35th and 36th year.

Paul