the golden age of jazz

...kinda depends, as francis davis says, on when you started listening to the music. in my case, that'd be ca. 1975, when my beefheart-loving college roommate and i used to go to the library and freak our schoolmates out by listening to ornette coleman records "for our own enjoyment," and i bought my first coltrane record: ascension. so of course i was interested to read the lists of "great post-vietnam era jazz rekkids" posted here and here and here.