You’ll also hear words and phrases like ‘architectonics’, ‘vertiginous’, ‘eking’, ‘narrative structure’, ‘directional energy’, ‘wrong side of the beat’.  I don’t know what most of them mean, either, but real jazz aficionados seem to.

You’ll hear

-John Coltrane playing his greatest masterpiece.

-Guido Basso playing a lovely fluegelhorn solo with Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass.

-Cannonball Adderley’s solo on Miles (aka Milestones), and some differing opinions on it.

-Charlie Christian’s solo on Swing to Bop

-Clifford Brown and Sarah Vaughan together.

-Ornette Coleman

-McCoy Tyner

-Larry Young, featuring an Elvin Jones drum solo.