And consider L. Donaldson, B. Mitchell, G. Green, Turrentine Bros and J. Patton. A never ending thread...
You really think so.
Shorter, Hancock, Blakey and Horace recorded long strings of good albums.
But the rest of the guys mentioned...
Sometimes good records, sometimes mediocre (you can argue that even the mediocre BN is better than anything else).
Sorry I can't agree that Donaldson and G.Green were as consistant in high quality as the others.
I agree with you: Shorter, Hancock, Blakey and Horace, (I would add Hill, McLean and S. Rivers) are giants, and their better output is on BN. On the other hand a lot of names mentioned above have their better output on BN.
Anyway I am with you, if I have to chose...