Best sounding CD of Brass?


I attended a performance of an unamplified brass jazz band the other night and wondered what CD in my collection (I have around a hundred jazz CD's) would be best to evaluate my system compared to what I heard live. I don't have one, so I turn to you, wise Gonners, to tell me what CD of brass music SOUNDS the closest to live instruments? I don't really care about classic performances, as this will be an analytical tool. Strictly sound, especially catagories such as dynamics, clarity, tonal characteristics, frequency, to a lesser degree soundstage and image.
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Any of the march compilations on Mercury with the eastman wind ensemble conducted by Frederick Fennell. Also used to have an LP of "Hail To the Chief" a tribute to Emory Remington of Eastman (brass instructor) by their trombone choir.Wonder if it still lives as a cd? Fennell was/is? unbeleiveable; had the opportunity to participate in a sight-reading with him at the controls playing Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man". He had two percussionists hold the bass drum at a 45 degree angle and then picked out the biggest guy in the band to beat down on it, gave evrybody a downbeat and ran up the risers to us trombones, and trumpets, exhorting "attack, attack"!