My Summer of Joy and Delight

 Not only have I been healthier than I've been in years but the self-appointed Deep Dive into the history and world of Classic" 1970s era Jazz-Rock Fusion has been so rewarding: generating a daunting yet-thoroughly enjoyable list of here-to-fore unknown music for me to explore. I've had particular fun getting to know so many European artists whose existence much less music were totally unheard of before this. Also the major revelations have included:

• How much I LOVE ADORE CRAVE Funk!
• the innovative bass play of Anthony Jackson
• the unexpectedly diverse and virtuosity guitar play of John Abercrombie
• All of the Mwandishi albums
• the transcendant Kosmische Musik of Lonnie Liston Smith
• supernova Hermann Szobel
• Michal Urbaniak (with vocal acrobatics wife Urszula Dudziak)
• the entire Return To Forever discography
• John Lee & Gerry Brown: ahead of their time
• Wisconsin's own Matrix
• the genius of Terje Rypdal
• the joy and absolute genius of Don Ellis
• So many German and Eastern European bands like Exil, Out Of Focus, Embryo, Volker Kriegel, Energit, Fermàta, Laboratorium, Leb I Sol, Missus Beastly, From, Martin Kratochvíl and Jazz Q, Kornelyans
• More Italian J-RF bands like Etna, Perigeo, Napoli Centrale, and, of course, Arti E Mestieri
• More Scandanavian bands like Moose Loose,  Secret Oyster,  Dr. Dopo Jam, Janne Schaffer, Jan Garbarek, and Achimedes Badkar
• The many faces and bands of Allan Holdsworth (especially 'Iggingottom!)
• The expanded histories and discographies of Billy Cobham, Lenny White, Tony Williams, Toto Blanke, Eddie Henderson, Don Ellis, Larry Coryell, Brian Auger, Weather Report, Miroslav Vitous, Pierre Courbois, and 
• the Catalan scene in Barcelona