“Like a rare and seldom-seen comet, a jazz trumpet virtuoso like Sam Noto could only burst upon he Buffalo music scene once in a couple of centuries.”    Sometime in the early 1960s, Sam Noto and his quintet opened for Miles Davis at the Town Casino, one of Buffalo’s long-ago jazz joints on Main Street.  Sam’s band had come off the bandstand and Sam was standing against a wall listening to Miles.   After his solo, Miles walked off the stand as his band continued to play and approached Noto. “He was standing next to me and I could feel him looking at me,” remembers Sam.After a long pause, Miles asks, in his signature rasp, “How do you like Tony?”Sam: “Sounds great, man.”  (Tony Williams was Miles’ new young drummer.)Another long pause, then: “How do you like George?”Sam: “Sounds great, man.”  (George Coleman was the band’s post-Coltrane tenor saxophonist.)Another pause, then: “Tony hates George.”  And Miles walks back to the stand.    Like all his stories, Sam Noto tells this one with perfect showman’s timing