It must have been in the 80’s when I was really making the rounds in all the jazz clubs in the St. Louis area that featured live jazz; I mean the groups that were called "house bands". Ahmad Jamal started as the "house band" for The Pershing on the South Side of Chicago.
Many of our famous jazz musicians started by playing in an "unknown house band". Some of those musicians (St. Louis house bands) would probably have become famous if all those clubs had remained open, but when the economy for "the lower middle class" took a ride to the bottom, those clubs could no longer stay open, all are now closed.
I recall one club band that was especially unique; they featured a jazz musician who played the African Kalimba. I have never heard anything like it before or since, and this is the best example I could find after searching, maybe you can find something better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPc59Y7KHqg
My point is, had this band developed and recorded, I would have at least one of their albums in my collection.
You grow corn in corn fields, wheat in wheat fields, and you grow the best jazz musicians in jazz clubs.