Ghosthouse, I'm glad to hear you defending your unique view of this music.
"Because I’m not as grounded in jazz as you more seasoned aficionados, I’m also not married to a particular style or mode of interpretation applied to a given composition. I don’t have expectations. Consequently, this music just sounds very fresh and different to me. NEW even.
Which reminds me of the three blind guys seeing an elephant for the first time.
Frogman, I didn't think that was contentious; it was just a statement of fact. Statements of fact are neither judgmental or divisive; they just are; like the sky is blue, unless it's cloudy, and then beyond the clouds it's still blue.
You took the statement "jazz is almost like a religion" and turned it into one of those "Islam" type things where you can get beheaded for blasphemy.