Jazz for aficionados

I discovered jazz  ready to understanding it late in my 35 years forty years ago then...

But your post remind me that i bought a Louis Armstrong album where he sang also ... I was young in my 20...But for me this album was not a door to enter into  jazz, it was  Louis Armstrong as a unique artist so big (the sun)  then, it was  more than jazz itself for me at the times because no one else compared one second in my young heart to Louis voice and trumpet...It takes 15 more years for me to discover Chet Baker ( the moon)  then and others jazz artists...

Marsalis describe well in 2 minutes what i felt without knowing it  at the time :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtfXf49A42Q

@audio-b-dog 

You mentioned Grisman, which reminded me of Old and In The Way and his associate in that band, Vassar Clements, who was clearly not a Jazz musician but nevertheless quite "jazzy" in his approach. I’m guessing he was influenced in this regard by way of Western Swing. I’ve always liked his playing. 

On a completely different tangent, I once saw Yehudi Menuhin with Ravi Shankar and a band composed of L. A. studio players including Bud Shank and Dennis Budimir play outdoors in Ojai.  It was supposed to be some sort of Indo-Jazz Fusion but I don’t remember the music, as this was back in the 70’s. You can interpret that as you will ... ;o) 

@mahgister 

You’ve got me curious. Which heavenly bodies do you associate with other well-known trumpet players? 

Another "East meets West group" with violin, played by Jerry Goodman, in this case: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAN_GNDmjs

And one more: Elvin Jones with Oregon: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00e1wqawEMg&list=PLUQMjA4aCygThCQW6bBZ0IW1dR4UOzkSN

@audio-b-dog,

I was absolutely wonderstruck by Stephanne Grappelli in the Johnny Carson link. I’ve never even heard of him. He plays with such ease, panache with so much graceful swing. This is good stuff.

He kinda reminds of America’s Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys  jazz and blues country (western) swing.

https://gpb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/jazz-blues-western-swing/ken-burns-country-music/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okNgLm4Ilt4

Along with Spade Cooley and his Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D14M9uW5sF0

@mahgister 

You’ve got me curious. Which heavenly bodies do you associate with other well-known trumpet players? 

Miles Davis is Jupiter...For sure...

I had not decided who is Saturn yet and Uranus Neptune and Pluto... Too much great trumpet players to analyse and feel....