Although health issues have prevented me from responding to each individual post, I consider everyone's post important and special, and I will try to catch up.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again; during my life as an aficionado, there has been no way so much information was available, and it's possible for a current devotee to discover almost as much I have learned in a lifetime, through research on "you tube".
"You Tube" gives me the ability to convey to you my lifetimes selections as to what I consider the very best jazz cuts; this is music that takes me to places where jazz artists go while performing. When you see the guy blowing the horn, or jamming the organ close his eyes, with that look on his face that he's no longer with us; that's what I'm talking about.
Before now, I spent my time in search of new and different jazz, but no longer; while at the same time I appreciate those who are in search for something new and different.
Since I've had close relationships with some of the musicians we have posted, I know how special they are, and all of them I knew are gone, and the ability to create jazz to the extent they created may be gone with them. Now, that thanks to "You Tube", I can access their life works, that's what I intend to do.