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Mapleshade CD Favorites

Mapleshade is a small recording house with a reputation for great sounding CDs for either live or studio recordings. Since I've had their catalog sitting around for more time than I want to acknowledge; and if you buy 4 or more CDs, you get them for less than $10 each; I thought I would ask a simple question.

What's your favorite Mapleshade recording(s)? Which ones knocked your shoes off, revealed your system, or just made you happy? My musical preferences are jazz, and blues, but am willing to try good CDs in other venues.

I have seen some recommendations in other threads for:
Mojo - Big Joe Mahler Sextet
Live At Ethell's - Clifford Jordan Quartet
Big, Sweet and Blue - Norris Turney Quartet
Feel free to add more or elaborate on these.
rrick

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suits_me
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Any opinions? I'm curious about some of the more obscure ones that have no samples on their site, such as:
Brother Ad's, Celebration (von Schweikert's imaging reference, they say)
Michael Carvin, Drum Concerto at Dawn
Chief Bey, Children of the House
Silent Bear, ?
Tony Williamson, Still Light of the Evening (does have samples)

I see they sell 4 or more for 9.60 each at mapleshade.com, and that you can exchange any recording you don't like after listening. Amazon charges 19.00 for ARC, anyway. (I haven't yet checked at Amazon for samples of the others....) Amusicdirect charges something like 12.00 each, but has no samples nor even descriptions.
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