  The scenario of heavy quark meson spectroscopy underwent recently a major
revolution, after the observation of BABAR and CLEO, confirmed by BELLE, of
$\DsJ$ L=1 excited states, and by further evidences by SELEX. These
experimental results have cast doubts on the incarnations of the ideas of Heavy
Quark Effective Theory in heavy quark spectroscopy. I shall review the status
of experimental data, discuss implications and sketch an outlook.
