Make sure there's plenty of room when you invite Brad Dutz over to play. The standard drum kit would take up some space to begin with, but that's just one small section of the Dutz spread. Blink and one will miss the arrival of what seems like the entire cargo of a boat, all drums from faraway places across oceans, seized by customs and dumped all over the stage, awaiting the careful setting up of the maestro. Then there are a series of special clay drums, vaguely resembling the lineup of ceramic cookware in the front of a Moroccan culinary shop. The space an ordinary drummer might utilize for his complete setup might not even be sufficient for Dutz's phone books of contacts, let alone his percussion ordnance. After perusing the Los Angeles based percussionist's discography, one can imagine a phone book that is cleaved off into volumes based on each letter of the alphabet. Adventurous listeners discover Dutz through his involvement with the southern California free improvisation and avant-garde jazz scene, performing and recording with artists such as trumpeter Jeff Kaiser, multi-instrumentalist and multi-record producer Vinny Golia, and talented drummer and bandleader Alex Cline. Quite often fans of such artists bemoan the fact that their talents are not put to use on commercial recording projects as well; a Vinny Golia contrabass clarinet solo, for example, would liven up just about every new pop release that comes out of the Hollywood hit factory, and he probably even lives around the corner from one of the recording studios.