A blowing session????

@charles1dad  I totally agree that each musician has their own interpretation and style. No question. Not really what I was getting at in my OP though. More along the lines of the overall impression that one gets with listening to the genre. So, is this stye of jazz primarily alined with the type of 'blowing session' that we witness with so many of these albums? Not saying it is a bad thing, on the contrary, it can be very interesting to listen to, and as you point out, each artist has their take on the music. Just that it is a continual theme that perhaps someone who does not listen to too much bop should be aware of, particularly with all of the new re-issues that are now coming to ( and have been on) the market.

@jafant Thanks for the suggestions. I have just about every OG Blue Note produced. So, i am familiar with these folks works.

My OP was wondering more along the lines if the particular genre at the time...mostly Bop, was pretty much a ’blowing session’ for a lot of these musicians. Which would lead me to my next question, perhaps this is why Miles Davis ’progressed’ into the discovery ( if you can call it that?) of fusion. Maybe ( and I don’t know this as a fact) he felt that these ’blowing sessions’ were somewhat limited in their scope and wanted to move the genre of jazz forward. This would be my guess, maybe someone knows more definitively about this theory??

@immatthewj  Yes, technically the sax is in the woodwind family. Although this classification is simply because it uses a wood reed, but when was the last time anyone saw a wooden sax?? Almost all of the ones I know of are made of brass.Which is exactly why I referred to it as a brass instrument, not referencing the family it belongs to.