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Idolator readers may still be arguing about whether or not Herbie Hancock’s low-selling Joni Mitchell tribute should have trumped the better-selling young pop things for Album Of The Year at the Grammys, but Ben Ratliff of the New York Times knows why jazz fans shouldn’t be so hyped about what the upset means for the genre: it’s “a singer-songwriter record” with weak-ass drums! He also calls it “exquisitely acceptable,” which works as both straight-faced assessment and deliciously succinct zinger depending on which word gets the emphasis. [NY Times]