See, this is special right here ... I can just see Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman walking in with their free jazz and thinking, "We're on the right planet, right here."

Monk would be right behind them: "It looks a bit different, but let's 'worry later' because there are some 'brilliant corners' up in here!"

Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane would walk in and say, "Yes, indeed that took more than one small step for mankind -- that took 'giant steps' -- but we're here! We played 'a night in Tunisia' last night but this will work for tonight! Man, that warp drive they've got now is amazing!"

Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, the patriarchs of jazz, would arrive and check it out and then go call for the matriarchs: "Hey Bessie, Ella, Sarah, and Billy -- it's far out, but it still has that swing -- come on off the mothership!"

Charles Mingus would have his bass, and Max Roach his drums ... and then Duke would go to the second mothership to welcome his band and King Oliver, Benny Goodman, and Dave Brubeck with their bands, and last but not least meet the stowaway, an excited little boy wearing sunglasses ...

"You can feel it all over, Sir Duke -- I just had to come!"

"Right on, Stevie, my boy, right on. Come on then -- because when we have gone on, you'll be running the place!"