Frogman, you probably treasure all your experiences of seeing our most famous jazz artists live, the same as me.
Living in New York, I'm sure you've seen more of the famous jazz musicians than I have, but here in St' Louis we have had some very good jazz musicians that I saw often and talked to. Miles was not a St. Louis jazz musician, the same as Grant Green was. Miles was a New York jazz musician.
As everyone knows, live music is so much more rewarding than recorded music. Local pianist (and organist) "Terry Williams" sounded as good as Horace Silver to me when I heard him, which was every weekend for awhile at one of the clubs here.
I always came to the club an hour before he went on, to talk jazz. He showed me a portfolio of photos where he played piano for the famous musicians we discuss when they came to town and needed a keyboard player.
I was looking for something about Terry when I stumbled on this. The irony is; I remember almost every body and everything, but for the life of me, I can not remember Richard Martin, maybe he had a nickname they didn't reveal, but my memory is not as good as it once was; never the less, this article brings back a ton of good memories.
https://stljazznotes.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-search-of-richard-martin.html