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Billy Strayhorn - Cue For Saxophone (London). This used to be a tough CD to find but looking at discogs these days, maybe not so much any more.

I really don't want to continue discussing this with you other than to say for years I have been working to eliminate "noise" throughout my system and it has paid dividends in improved sound. That's the simple truth of my experience. I'm done discussing, I don't wish to make any further comments about yours..  

Continuing Saga of the Wealthy White Alto Player I may be talking to myself here, but since it's off topic, you can skip it if you want to. ] Since the Wealthy White Alto Player (WWAP), thought the chart I wrote was Classical music, I wrote on the rhythm sections' charts "Strip Joint Music". On the trumpet player's charts I wrote "HARMON MUTE"above the staff so they wouldn't start a fight with me like the dick trumpet player in the other band almost succeeded in doing, and I brought the chart down to the rehearsal last night, expecting the worst. As soon as I walked into the room, the WWAP said to me, "I didn't bring my alto part."  Luckily, I brought an extra part to conduct from, so I put it on his stand ( but I felt like shoving it you-know-where...) I gave the trumpet players their parts, and reminded them to use their mutes, which I should have done with the other band, I guess... Since the leader of the band, the WWAP, didn't even bother to send out reminders to the band about the rehearsal, we were missing two trombones, one tenor sax, one trumpet, and worst of all, a bass player.. Instead of conducting the band  on my arrangement, I was forced to play the bass part on my guitar, so I just told the band, "Make believe you're in a strip joint and some blonde with big bosoms is doing her thing on the pole." Just to embarrass the WWAP, I added, "This is not classical music like our leader thinks it is." The guys in the band were making all types of lewd jokes which I can't repeat here, and I counted it off and we stumbled through it. The WWAP had obviously worked hard on it, just going off on some of the technical things, but since I was trying to play bass on it, I was too preoccupied to notice specifics. The WWAP just said, "Bring it down again when we have a bass player".  To be continued...