Buddha the Magnificent

Thanks, jazzbo! Hey, places where fellow PKD fans reside can't be all bad, LOL!

AAJ Forum refugee Buddha checking in. I spent several years over there trying to figure out whose tastes and recommendations were similar to mine, and now I get to frackin' start all over again, LOL! Oh, well, that's life. Hey, y'all!

Maybe there are three such efforts, CJ - I've got several Live at Yoshi's as well (Jessica Williams, Mulgrew Miller), released by MaxxJazz. I like live jazz but can't get it often where I live (the excellent Savannah Music Festival in late March/early April being the exception), but AYK live recordings often suffer from inferior sound. The nice thing about most of the Small's (there's one very early one I'm thinking of I wish sounded better) and all of the Smoke Sessions releases is very good recording quality matched with excellent performances. IMO, of course; YMMV. I wish there were more of these efforts.

great contemporary straight ahead live sessions with seriously fine recording quality. I've picked up every one as they've been released, and they're all solid or better. http://smokesessionsrecords.com/ The Eric Reed and Orrin Evans are the two newest issues. Louis Hayes and David Hazeltine may be my favorites.

second on Maria Schneider; I grab everything I can by her. seconds also on The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society I recently picked up Woman Dreaming of Escape by Florencia González Big Band that I can't stop playing (her 2014 small combo release Between Loves is stellar as well: Florencia González - tenor sax; Jonathan Powell - trumpet, flugelhorn; Shannon Barnett - trombone; Luis Perdomo - piano; Fernando Huergo - bass; Franco Pinna - drums. Zoho Music). There's always Creative Orchestra Music 1976 by Anthony Braxton (Arista). Orrin Evans's Captain Black Big Band There's always Gil Evans - Everyone knows the work Evans did with Miles, and I've enjoyed Ryan Truesdale's Centennial - Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans from 2012