Coltrane…Evans…Davis…Silver…Baker…Getz….Satchmo…Les McCann….Hancock….life’s luxuries…listened to with tears after midnights…if you don’t cry while hearing jazz…you ain’t human….

The Real McCoy…Ray Brown….Keith Jarrett Trio…Paul Chambers…Mingus moanin’ and howlin’….Joe Henderson….Peterson….do you hear these prayers…you listenin’?….

Dexter Calling….Dear Old Stockholm….Sunday At The Village Vanguard…Swiss Movements…meditate on that…

songs hit and hurt…a good hurt…a healing hurt…giving joy…old memories come about….life unfolds in the length of a single smoky note…blown…beat..plucked…and planked….forgiveness wails…

it is jazz….America’s dying art form….or…is it….