Vegetables and the magicians with 'chops'

Thinking today about the great horn men. When I was much younger one day I got into the mysterious and compelling trumpet work of Miles Davis. I liked the esoteric wildisms Dizzy created on trumpet but somehow the highly fluid, so beautifully linear lines of Miles proved so vivid, yes so incredibly strong. Equally impressive on the offerings of Miles was the crackling, fiery work of the mind-boggling Paul Chambers on bass and the lilting harmonic introspective backing of the sly Red Garland on piano. I enjoy the dissonant chords of keyboard fellas like Cedar Walton and Abdullah Ibrahim. But somehow the expansive, so full of passion ivory work of Mr. Garland and of course the magical keyboard strong man, McCoy Tyner, make the zinging, strength of lots of teeth jazz so ruggedly right. The brand of jazz that has the high energy mindfulness of the East Coast sound knowingly kicks right in with the historic horn guys like Miles. And of course the innovative sleek saxophone of the man known as Coltrane helps to create even more delicious sound vegetables in the wily garden that is American jazz.