Not specifically to Snakeoil, but generally speaking this is why I couldn't really participate in this thread. Many of the modern examples I would give suffer from this same situation.
Several of the other examples listed don't seem like they conform to the type of committed touring/recording jazz ensemble that recorded several albums together (and shared in the writing credits).
For the classic stuff, the vast majority of my favorite jazz albums either are identified by the leader of the session or as a group dynamic. For example, I enjoy a ton of 60s albums by Jackie McLean, Herbie, Hutch, etc., but the vast majority of them vary the musicians from album to album enough that you can't compare them to the consistency of Coltrane's quartet and other similar touring bands found in the OP.
I was thinking about groups like the Music Revelation Ensemble and Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, but those collectives also has quite a few different members over time.
And maybe I'm interpreting the original post incorrectly and the members are less important than the collective.
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