To anyone who, like me, caught the Bobby Watson show over the weekend at Baltimore’s Caton Castle, we are lucky, aren’t we?

To everyone else, please do yourself a favor and watch for upcoming shows at this unique jazz mecca that has been bringing together stellar performers for 35 years – and just assembled five of them Saturday night.

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There was 72-year-old veteran saxophonist Watson, who has played with Art Blakey, Max Roach, Branford Marsalis and Roy Hargrove.

By his side was internationally acclaimed trumpeter Sean Jones, currently the chair of Jazz Studies at Baltimore’s Peabody Institute.

(Jones often sits back a bit, playing the low-key role of mentor, but Saturday night, playing with his peers before Caton Castle’s knowledgeable crowd, he put on an all-out performance that had the crowd swooning.)

Bassist Curtis Lundy, who has a long history as a leader and of playing with Watson, vocalist Betty Carter’s band and others, showed his prowess this night.

Also unleashing startling solos were Philadelphia-born piano prodigy Jordan Williams and Baltimore-born drum master Eric Kennedy.

Caton Castle’s founder Ron Scott, who put on the first show there in 1990, worked the room, while the staff made sure to keep the drinks, broiled salmon, fried chicken and collard greens coming.

You could go to New York or anywhere around the world and never manage to hear a jazz performance this good and definitely have no better an evening.

Individually and as a quintet, the five musicians delivered two sets of cerebral-yet-soulful music that had the crowd on its feet.

“Go for it!” an audience member called out during one of Kennedy’s blistering solos.

To a seatmate, the man delivered this high compliment: “You can tell he’s from Baltimore.”