>>Want to hear something funny? I really love the old music - pre 1940s. My mother grew up listening to that music (Bea Wain, Mildred Bailey, Bing, the Boswell Sisters, etc. etc.). In fact, she saw some of these folks live who are legends to me (very unfair of her), but even still, I had to introduce her to some of the musicians and singers from that era that she'd never heard of, but came to love after the introduction to their music. It seems really weird to me that I had to introduce her to music of her own era. Sure was fun though. Gotta say, I miss the old gal.
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>My knowledge of jazz pre-1940's is limited. I have some of the basic swing jazz standards (Duke Ellington) and some of the early Lester Young stuff, but mostly I've followed the period from the mid-40's to the mid-late 60's.
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>I am such a bop snob that some of the pianoless trios/quartets are hard for me to listen to :)

Nothing wrong with bop. I'm a fan too. The only real problem with bop is that there are a limited number of musicians who really understand it well enough to do it justice. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at Minton's back in the 40s. Of course, then I'd probably have thought, like most people listening to those guys, "What the hell was that?"