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I can’t say I agree. You claim that Chet lived his life the way he wanted. That sounds like he was in control of his own life while I believe a heroin addict is never in control of his life and could never live the life he wants. Sure he remained successful up till the end of his life but succes doesn’t equal happiness as so many musicians have proved. Chet was a regular visitor of the police station my father in law worked. He was in all sorts of trouble always related to drugs. He got robbed, beaten up and he ended his life by jumping out of a hotel window. That doesn’t sound like a happy person in charge of his own life. Maybe I shouldn’t have used the term sad person as that has a negative feeling. But he lived a life that could have been so much better and, though he certainly had his moments, I very much doubt if he was really happy.

Heard the Cuarteto Casals in concert quite some time ago without lasting impressions .... probably will give their Beethoven a try as available on YT ....

A fair assesment ....

This must be the Lester Young playlist - thanks for the tip.    

Spotify is producing their own music because what they pay out is divided amongst any music that gets more than a 1000 plays (I forget over what time period) and the amount they pay out is a percentage of their total income.  The more they pay to themselves the less they pay others. It sucks.  However, I'm on Spotify a lot but almost never passively.  I usually pick an album but there are also playlists like the one that has nearly every record with a Lester Young solo-- including some air-checks. It can take most of a day to get through it.  When my choices do run out I   often have   gotten fairly good followups.(After I played some Charles Lloyd they continued with Coltrane, Dolphy etc., at one point making a perfect segue from one to another that was so good I presumed it was done by a real person-- of course shortly after that they fired most of their programmers.) Once or twice I have heard what sounds like an AI mix of Bill Evans, Bill Charlop and Eric Satie-- it was pretty awful.  Is it really "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most"?  I know you can't can't copyright a title (e.g.  Blue Haze) but Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most  is such an idiosyncratic use of words you'd think the composers could sue.