Buddha the Magnificent

Paul Bley - Caravan Suite (SteepleChase, 1993). Paul Bley - piano.

Gaetano Partipilo, Miles Okazaki, and Dan Weiss - I Like Too Much (AUAND, 2008). Gaetano Partipilo - alto sax; Miles Okazaki - guitar; Dan Weiss - drums.

Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa - Raw Materials (Pi Recordings/Savoy Jazz, 2006). Vijay Iyer - piano; Rudresh Mahanthappa - alto sax.

Art Pepper + Eleven (1960).

April eMusic Denny Zeitlin - Denny Zeitlin Trio in Concert Ken McIntyre - Hindsight Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band - Live at Ronnie Scott's Archie Shepp & Lars Gullin - The House I Live In

Andy Fusco - Whirlwind (SteepleChase, 2016). Andy Fusco - alto sax; John Mosca - trombone; Joel Weiskopf - piano; Dennis Irwin - bass; Billy Drummond - drums.

Love that Woody Shaw recording, JT! Angeli, Burke, Guerrini, Magnusson, Murray, and Tamborrino - Sardinian Liturgy (Jazzhead Records, 2016). Paolo Angeli - Sardinian guitar; Robert Burke - tenor, soprano sax, b clarinet; Mirko Guerrini - tenor, soprano, baritone sax; Jordan Murray - trombone; Stephen Magnusson - guitar; Stefano Tamborrino - drums.

rostasi, the people who came through his bands were incredible I saw The New Ice Age at the Last Resort in Athens, but they were appearing as the Hampton Geese Band at that show. Paul McCandless, Karl Ratzer, Billy McPherson. I see that Jimmy Herring, the fantastic jam guitarist with the Colonel's Aquarium Rescue Unit, is going on tour this fall with John McLaughlin.

Anne Mette Iversen - Many Places (Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records, 2014). Anne Mette Iversen - bass; John Ellis - tenor, soprano sax; Danny Grissett - piano; Otis Brown III - drums. Lovely stuff....

Col. Bruce Hampton and The Aquarium Rescue Unit (Capricorn Records, 1992). Bruce Hampton - vocals, guitar; Jimmy Herring - guitar; Matt Mundy - mandolin, vocals; Chuck Leavell - keyboards; Oteil Burbridge - bass; Apt. Q258 - drums; Count Mbutu - congas.

R.I.P. Col Bruce https://www.jambase.com/article/jam-scene-patriarch-col-bruce-hampton-died What a blast it was to catch this band in the Athens/Atlanta GA area back in the late 60's - early '70s. The last time I saw them a few years back, I drove up to ATL to catch a one-off reunion show at The Variety Playhouse. The last time before that, they opened for Mahavishnu Orchestra in ATL circa 1972, also causing me to do the five hour drive up to ATL. I saw Col Bruce many times, including spectacular shows with Aquarium Rescue Unit at the Fox Theater, opening for Widespread Panic.

The Reunion Project - Varanda (Tapestry, 2017). Felipe Salles - tenor, soprano sax; Chico Pinheiro - guitar; Tiago Costa - piano; Bruno Migotto - bass; Edu Ribeiro - drums.

Per Oddvar Johansen - Let's Dance (Edition Records, 2016). Per Oddvar Johansen - drums, violin, vibes, guitars, wood perc, electronics; Hegle Lien - piano; Torben Snekkesstad - saxes, reed trumpet. Lovely stuff with an EMC feel. Atmospheric and dreamy. Another great Dave Sumner reco from Bird is the Worm.

Two old favorites from Weather Report, 1971's eponymous Weather Report, and 1973's Sweetnighter.

Yep, I like this one a lot. Mentioned on Dave Sumner's site last year. NP Girona Jazz Project Big Band and Guillermo Klein - El Camino (SGAE, 2010).

Fefe Botti and Guillermo Klein - Otro Suelo (El Cirko Sello Digital, 2017). Fefe Botti: bass; Guillermo Klein: piano; Diego Suarez: flute; Richard Nant: trumpet, flugelhorn; Bernardo Monk: alto sax, clarinet; Ramiro Flores: soprano, tenor sax; Inti Nicolas Sabev: b clarinet; Cecilia Ruiz: voice.

Oliver Nelson and his Orchestra - Fantabulous (Argo, 1964).

Peter Beets - New York Trio: Page 3 (Criss Cross Jazz, 2005). Peter Beets - piano; Reginald Veal - bass; Herlin Riley - drums.

Been shuffling Freddie Hubbard the last three hours. Spectacular stuff! NP Barry Harris - Live in Tokyo (Xanadu, 1976). Barry Harris - piano; Sam Jones - bass; Leroy Williams - drums.

Base Line - Why Really (Challenge Jazz, 2007). Hein Van de Geyn - bass; John Abercrombie - guitar; Joe Labarbera - drums.

Ben Monder - Amorphae (ECM, 2015). Ben Monder - guitars; Pete Rende - synthesizer; Andrew Cyrille and Paul Motian - drums. Quite possibly my favorite version of "Oh, What A Beautiful Morning."

The Bees - Octopus (Virgin Records, 2007). Paul Butler, Aaron Fletcher, Tom Gardner, Tim Parkin, Warren Hampshire, Kris Birkin, John McMullan, Michael Clevett, Darren Pink.

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - I Speak Fula (Out Here Records, 2009). Bassekou plays the ngoni, a traditional “spike lute” ancestor of the banjo, sharing its taut-skinned drum body, percussive attack, and varied picking techniques. Ngoni Ba is the first group built around not one but four ngoni‘s. Got to see these guys at Savannah Music Festival probably about the time this album came out; they were on a double bill with Bill Frisell.

Ben Allison - Think Free (Palmetto, 2014). Ben Allison - bass; Steve Cardenas - guitar; Shane Endsley - trumpet; Jenny Scheinman - violin; Rudy Royston - drums.

Ben Allison - The Stars Look Very Different Today (Sonic Camera, 2013). Ben Allison - bass; Steve Cardenas - guitar; Brandon Seabrook - guitar, banjo; Allison Miller - drums.