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This is a great one by Joyce’s daughter, taking samba and bossa and modernizing the sound; a reimagining of “Samba Esquema Novo,” the seminal debut album release by Jorge Ben (1963).   720×420 74.2 KB   The “source” LP  

That's sad news. He was a fantastic player.

McPhee's "Tenor" would be near or at the top of the heap. I am a fan of solo saxophone recordings overall and if a saxophonist I like makes a solo record, I'll check it out. Beyond Lacy, Parker, Braxton, Mitchell, and Abe, who are the pantheon, I'd recommend Marion Brown's "Recollections," which I think is even better than his solo on Sweet Earth. The two volumes of David S. Ware solos on AUM Fidelity are quite beautiful as well. Brötzmann's 14 Love Poems is another choice disc. Dickie Landry's Fifteen Saxophones (15 delayed/looped horns) is a favorite; it also includes one alto flute piece and an out-of-this-world solo tenor piece ("Kitchen Solos"). I wrote the notes for its reissue many years ago. Rob Brown's Oceanic on RogueArt is one I need to pick up -- ordered one from a US seller and they sent me a different Rob Brown CD by mistake (which I didn't have either, so I didn't stress the issue). Apparently it is unreal. That free jazz blog list is useful. Butcher, definitely. I like Lol a lot but admit to having spent much more time with his group music. This is also worth checking out... I wish it included *all* of Frippe's Bird Notes recordings but that would've been far too costly to produce and an even more niche interest.

Welcome! The film and album versions are completely different listening experiences.  The LP sounds like Gato; the film sounds like Oliver. Unfortunately, the CD of the film version contains a lot of short cues with glacial pauses between. Even worse, some of this silence is embedded in the individual tracks.  It is like you are hearing the reference disc from which to compile an album.  It has zero sense of momentum or development. So, I loaded the whole thing into ProTools, tightened up the tracks, and in some cases, combined related short cues to create longer tracks.  My version provides an infinitely better listening experience, but I was not paid, and I don't think it should be the listener's job to finish someone else's album.  Still, it was worth doing, in this case.