Hearing - or reading - someone speak about his/her passion is never boring, except, PERHAPS, if one has absolutely NO interest in the subject ... but WE are all interested in music, no?, and therefore hearing about artists of all genres should be interesting ...
I would like to apologize for omitting MY favorite tenor player - Stan Getz - who I listened to a great deal during his bossa nova days with Jobim and Astrud Gilberto ...

Many years ago, while listening to Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" when it first came out, the sax player in our band said "that sounds like Phil Woods playing the alto solo" ... Sure enough, it was ...
I consider myself to be very fortunate to have heard these and other great Jazz artists live ... I know I have not heard nearly as many as some of you, but I've heard a few ...