I have learned more about music since this thread has been up, than I have in the rest of my entire life.
First, there are an infinite number of factors that determine what music we like best. Whatever music we like best, is the best music. The "Aristocracy", as always, claims the music they like is best, and when you combine what is said by everybody about all genres of music, "Classical" is the best; can you guess why? Because the aristocracy says it's best, that's why.
On the real side, in regard to the music we are about, when we reach a serious consensus, that's when it's time to study all the details carefully; by that, I mean to search for albums created by the artists who created that one; without the star artist on that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DKeYXG5gwk
This is an interesting album, and this is the first time I heard it; but I selected it based on my new found theory; which I bet you guessed by now.
Ghosthouse, we will apply my theory to your searches; that's why I'm looking into this ECM thing, a lot of us collected those records; that's where all the unique records (another word for "strange") records in my collection came from. Man can not live by hard bop alone, he must have a few unique records to balance things out when he wants a change.
What do you guys think of that album I selected based on my new theory.