Who are the Jazz Cats on Audiogon?

My humble thanks to the several people who mentioned my name in connection with this thread. Perhaps those of us who love jazz should establish a separate forum within this forum?

For those who have analog front ends in their systems, I want to mention that I am in the process of selling a significant chunk of my jazz LP's. This has become necessary because I will no longer be able to store my collection at my Dad's house (he's moving to an assisted living facility). If anyone is interested in acquiring some jazz LP's that are in excellent to mint condition, please send me a private E-mail, and I will send you the current list of available LP's. I currently have about 250 titles available, and will be adding another 100-200 titles to this list during the next week.

(Holds his thumb and index finger about a centimeter apart),I play maybe that much piano. I wanna be Horace Silver when I grow up.

Trane, Monk, Miles, Morgan, Roach, Rollins, Mingus, Dolphy ... put out tons of great stuff. No way is the story over. Ken Vandermark, Tim Berne, Dave Douglas, Mario Pavone, Henry Threadgill, Nils Wogram, Jean Derome, Vinny Golia, Tomasz Stanko, Eberhard Weber, Lucas Niggli, Nels Cline, Louis Sclavis and lots of other greats are doin' it now. Anyway, I'm probably in too, but refuse to poop on myself by being stuck in the past.

Clueless: Yeah, you're probably right about my handle. Actually, I see a very strong relationship between straight-ahead jazz and, say, Texas-style blues. But, I also have to agree with Marakanets; styles are really details. Music is basically 3 time-space phenomena: Melody, Couterpoint, Rhythmn. If there is one thing that characterizes jazz for me, it's the rhythmic expression--the swinging expression of notes. For me, it doesn't matter if this is found in Charlie Parker's "Now Is The Time," or Oingo Boingo's "Elevator Man," if it's got it, it swings, and I'm never going to get tired of it!

I own more jazz than any other kind of music. From Lee Morgan on Blue Note (1950's) to Paul Motian and Gonzalo Rubalcaba last year. There are so many great Jazz artists, it's impossible to listen to them all.

I must also allow time for rock and roll, blues, (a little) opera and classical. It would be easier to control my music library if I didn't like so many different kinds of music.