• Scatting like Ella, Louis, Betty & Mel
• Playing “Trinkle, Tinkle” and “Four In One” solo like Thelonious
• Being serenaded by Billie, Sarah & Dinah
• Grooving on vibes like Lionel, Red, ‘Bags’ & Bobby
• Blowing a sweet ballad on tenor like Ben, Dexter, Zoots & Gene
• Playing block chords on piano like Red, Billy & George
• Placing four on six and thumbing the guitar like Wes
• Crooning like Nat, Billy & Johnny
• Tickling the ivories like Ahmad, Erroll & Bill
• Blowing the alto slowly like I’ve got it bad, and that ain’t good, like Johnny
• Playing the blues on piano like Tommy, Hampton, Carl & Gene
• Battling tenors and cutting all comers like Coleman, Lester & Herschel
• Being charmed by Carmen, Abbey & Etta
• Playing the blues with my left only like Phineas
• Loving my sophisticated ladies madly like Duke
• Playing innovative bebop lines like Bud, Barry & Dodo
• Chasin’ confirmation that now’s the time to bebop like Bird
• Walking the bass like Ray, Paul, Oscar & George
• Swinging hard on piano like Oscar, Hank, Roland & Monty
• Begging my li’l darlin’ just one more time like Count
• Grinding on the organ back at the chicken shack like Jimmy
• Getting the blues every day, missing my little girl, like Joe
• Making great strides on piano like James P., Willie, Luckey & Fats
• Picking fast notes on guitar like Tal, Barney & Herb
• Gittin’ it in my soul while wearing a porky pie hat like Mingus
• Playing horn-like bebop lines on guitar like Charlie, Kenny & Grant
• Playing percussive chords with my left hand like McCoy & Cecil
• Battling along with tenors Lockjaw & Sonny and Wardell & Dexter
• Lamenting the blues at a moment’s notice with J.J., Curtis & Slide
• Blowing the roof off like Clifford, Fats, Lee, Kenny & Freddie
• Eternally triangulating with Dizzy & both Sonnys
• Muting my horn ‘round midnight as if it never entered my mind like Miles
• Taking giant steps through chord progressions with Trane
• Mumbling my words like C.T.
• Soaking in bright moments while play three horns simultaneously like Rahsaan
• Playing drum rolls and rim shots like Art, Max, Chick & Elvin
• Flying hi-gh, hovering over Little Niles like Randy
• Whistling “Bluesette” in a duet with Toots
• Taking a maiden voyage to Cantaloupe Island with Herbie
• Playing blindingly-fast piano runs on “Tea for Two” like Art
• Remembering Clifford while on the trail with stable mates Benny, Jimmy & James
• Fiddlin’ on the roof to see if any stars fell on Alabama like Cannonball
• Vocalese-ing “Everyday” like Dave, Jon & Annie
• Wailing and honking it up, Texas-style, like Arnett, Illinois, Buddy, Booker & ‘Fathead’
• Exchanging six silver pieces and discussing peace with Horace
• Yearnin’ for stolen moments and the abstract truth like Oliver
• Playing virtuosic guitar chords and melodic notes like Joe
• Taking a blues walk on a foggy day like Lou
• Signifyin’ after work about dat dere woman bein’ Jeannine like Oscar
• Romping through “Cherokee”, trading bars with Johnny, Don, Stan & Lucky

Aw shucks! My iPhone alarm just went off; time to get up for my morning constitutional … uh, my daily four-mile walk. Oh yes, I’ve watched Masterpiece Theater!! :v)