Back in 2000, 2001, I spent some time in New York. Brooklyn, to be specific. Lived with a guy who was a complete jazz nerd: must've owned 2,000 cd's if he owned one. Monk, Coltrane, Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra, and a whole mess of other people I'd never heard of before, but wound up loving. ...