When You Buy The Whole Album And Only Like One Song.

@stuartk - the club in Oakland you mention is Yoshi's, I assume?? 

@larsman

Yes, indeed. . . my wife and I enjoyed some wonderful evenings, there. They still offer Jazz occasionally, but rarely anyone we're willing to drive 2 hours+ to see. 

Rock drummers like to tout their Jazz-influenced chops (basically knowing the rudiments), but Mitch Mitchell actually put his to good use (saw him live twice). A current guy doing the same is Steve Gadd.

Earl Palmer is best-known as the drummer on early Rock ’n’ Roll hits by the likes of Little Richard (as well as a lot of Pop studio work, including on Phil Spector recordings, even Frank Sinatra), but he considered (R.I.P.) himself a Jazz musician (he came out of New Orleans). In his last days he had a trio that played in the bar at the steak house (now shuttered) directly across the street from the NBC studio in Burbank where the Tonight Show is filmed. I and a lot of other locals sat in the bar to watch a master at work. My house was two blocks away, so I could walk there.

@bdp24 

Yeah; I've read somewhere that many of the Funk Brothers considered themselves Jazz players.  

Ginger Baker's roots were definitely in Jazz: 

 “Four drummers in my life who were my absolute heroes: Phil Seamen was the first one, Max Roach, Art Blakey and Elvin Jones. All four of them became my friends, and I mean dear friends. That is worth more to me than anything in the whole world,” he said once"

And, of course, he recorded Jazz albums, including the excellent "Coward of the County" featuring compositions by trumpeter Ron Miles. 

@bdp24 I worked on the WB lot for years. Before that, I worked at Universal but those cheapskates parked me and my fellow story analysts in a crummy motel across the street behind the post office. We probably crossed paths a couple times.

In any case, in time the internet finally developed to the point where we could work remotely from home.