Antidote for a nightmare

I woke up out of a NIGHTMARE this morning that included a foot of snow on the ground and an old car slipping out of park, sliding down a street (although, it wasn't on a hill -- that should have tipped me off that it was a dream), crashing into a tree and then speeding, driverless, down a roadway full of traffic.
Suitably shaken in the predawn darkness, I decided to calm my nerves with "LUSH LIFE" by LOU DONALDSON.
One of the great anomalies of jazz, this album -- recorded in 1967 but unreleased until 1980 -- was completely out of its time.
Instead of his usual (and usually terrific) soulfully bouncy bop, Donaldson gathered such jazz luminaries as Pepper Adams, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter and McCoy Tyner for a set of gentle ballads.
It was "old school" before the term was invented.
The sax players, writer Jeff Stockton notes, "seem to be harking back to styles they left behind several years earlier."
"Each of the sax players sounds as if he is doing his impression of Ben Webster: Adams on the brawny low end, Donaldson sweetly fluttering on top, Shorter wrapping his arms around the midrange," Stockton wrote.
As I learn more about jazz, I learn there's a style for every mood and occasion.
"Lush Life," with its luxurious, retro feel, seems perfect for post-nightmare comfort.