Buddha the Magnificent

Illinois Jacquet - The Man I Love (Classic Jazz/Black and Blue, 1973). Illinois Jacquet - tenor sax; Wild Bill Davison - organ; Al Bartee - drums.

Hey, Hutch! I like it a lot, as good as any of the other half dozen Perdomos I have.

Martin Lutz Group - Where Are The Trumpets? (Calibrated Recording, 2007). Martin Lutz - keyboards; Jacob Rose - alto sax, clarinet, b clarinet; Jakob Skov - woodwinds; Mads Ole - tenor, soprano sax; Lars Johnsen - bass; Ricco Kjaer - drums, perc; Paolo Russo - bandoneon. I really like this one and their 2011 recording It's Swing - Not Rocket Science!

Archie Shepp & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Looking at Bird (SteepleChase, 1981). Archie Shepp - soprano, tenor sax; Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - bass.

Gerald Clayton - Tributary Tales (Motéma Music, 2017). G Clayton - piano; L Richardson - alto sax; B Wendel - tenor, bass sax; D Stephens - baritone sax; J Sanders - bass; J Brown - drums; A Monet, CH Rux, S Vasandani - voice; H Cole, Gl Lugo - percussion.

Don Pullen - New Beginnings (Blue Note, 1988). Don Pullen - piano; Gary Peacock - bass; Tony Williams - drums.

Terje Rypdal - After the Rain (ECM, 1976). Terje Rypdal - guitars, keyboards, soprano sax, flute, bells; Inger Lise Rypdal - vocals.

Ambrose Akinmusire - A Rift In Decorum: Live At The Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 2017). Ambrose Akinmusire - trumpet; Sam Harris - piano; Harish Raghavan - bass; Justin Brown - drums.

Daniel Herskedal - Slow Eastbound Train (Edition Records, 2015). Daniel Herskedal - tuba, bass trumpet; Eyolf Dale - piano; Helge Andreas Norbakken - percussion; The Trondheim Soloists - strings. Had to keep going....

Wow! That's very cool, Ted. And you're correct about the intimacy of the performance and I'd also say the recording. Really nice material overall, but I keep coming back to Wayne Shorter's "House of Jade" as maybe my favorite cut. NP Daniel Herskedal - The Roc (Whirlwind Recordings, 2017). Daniel Herskedal - tuba, bass trumpet; Bergmund Waal Skaslien - viola; Svante Henryson - cello; Eyolf Dale - piano; Helge Andreas Norbakken - percussion. Nice follow-on to 2015's Slow Eastbound Train.

Harold Mabern - Joy Spring. (Sackville, 2016). Harold Mabern - piano. From a performance at Cafe des Copains in 1985. Very sweet....

Xavi Maureta and Adam Kolker - La Perfecció de la Irrealitat (New Mood Jazz Records, 2011). Adam Kolker - tenor, soprano sax; Dick Oatts - alto sax; Bruce Barth - piano; John Hébert - bass; Xavi Maureta - drums.

Fabiano Araújo, Arild Andersen, Naná Vasconcelos - Rheomusi (Ágata Tecnologia Digital Ltda, 2012). Fabiano Araújo - piano, accordion; Arild Andersen - bass; Naná Vasconcelos - perussion.

Dan Tepfer - Solo Piano: Twelve Free Improvisations in Twelve Keys (DIZ, 2009).

Jessica Williams - In the Key of Monk (Jazz Focus, 1999). Jessica Williams - piano.

Thelonious Monk at The Blackhawk (1960, Riverside). Thelonious Monk - piano; Joe Gordon - trumpet; Harold Land, Charlie Rouse - tenor sax; John Ore - bass; Billy Higgins - drums.

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen Trio - Friends Forever: In Memory of Kenny Drew (1997, Milestone). Renee Rosnes - piano; Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - bass; Jonas Johansen - drums.

There seem to be a lot of older SteepleChase recordings that have been added recently. Yesterday was my first encounter with the new site. The zip file download seemed problematic as my computer would freeze up trying to C&P all the songs out of the Zip drive to a regular music folder, so I was reduced to downloading song by song - individual files from whole albums - which was kind of cumbersome and time consuming. I'll give 'em time to get things worked out. The now have a mobile app that supposedly gives you access to all the music you've bought. Not sure whether it has music you bought that they used to carry but no longer do.

Joris Teepe Big Band - We Take No Prisoners (Challenge Records, 2009).

Heads of State - Four in One (2017, Smoke Sessions). Gary Bartz - alto sax; Larry Willis - piano; David Williams - bass; Al Foster - drums. These guys are having entirely too much fun....

eMusic Renews! Heads of State - Four in One (2017, Smoke Sessions) Bobby Watson - Made in America (2017, Smoke Sessions) Terell Stafford - Forgive and Forget (2017, Herb Harris Music) Brian Landrus Trio - The Deep Below (2015, BlueLand Records)

Bobby Selvaggio - Modern Times (Arabesque Jazz, 2009). Bobby Selvaggio - alto, soprano sax; Kenny Werner - piano; Sean Jones - trumpet; Matt Wigton - bass; Nathan Douds - drums; Dan Murphy - piano; Paul Tynan - flugelhorn.

Erik Friedlander - Nighthawks (Skipstone, 2014). Erik Friedlander - cello; Doug Wamble - guitar; Trevor Dunn - bass; Michael Sarin - drums.

Issac Delgado - Prohibido (2016).

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Not Yet (Soul Note, 1988). Art Blakey - drums; Philip Harper - trumpet; Robin Eubanks - trombone; Javon Jackson - tenor sax; Benny Green - piano; Peter Washington - bass.