Maybe I'm weird, but...

[winoweenie]

This is my fini' on this subject.I've been lucky 'nuff in my time to have played wif' the "Bird", "Coleman", "Diz", "Chet", and meeny of the crowd at the " Blue Note", Village", and all the venues of K.C. of the late 40s' and early 50s'. The people who followed this early modern jazz idiom and the people who follow the great wines today are of the same cloth. NONE of the fellers mentioned in the previous posts could carry the mouthpieces of the above. They forgot more notes in their passages than Kenny or whats'-his-name could play in a week. I was smart enuf in my youthful exhuberance to listen to Oscar Peterson and his mentor, the greatest of them all Art Tatum, and realize I couldn't play like either in my whole put-togthether even if I had 18 fingers. How is this pertinant you ask? Very few people know any of the people I've listed, but without one shadow of a doubt my buddy, they are still the greatest musicians at their instruments the world has ever, or probably everwill see. You mention Ella, Dizzy, etc. and ask what the crowd goes for. Dernit' KJ isn't Ch. Montelena. Who gives a tinkers dern about the fact the stupid waiter gave it a big thumbs-up. The fact-is you and Foodie are doing one heckova' service in your presentation of superb alternative wines that kill the popular commercial CA-CA being offered to the general public. All I'm trying to get across is the fact your zeal can't conceal there is a top-flight area of juice, IF YOU CAN AFFORD THEM, that affords another level drinking experience. XXX&OOOs'. WW