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
rrick, I purchased about 12 mapleshade cd's all at once about 9 months ago. They seem to be very well recorded but I just can't digest that type of music.

I should put them up for sale.

-John
I own about 10 Mapleshade CDs, and while I enjoy the fidelity of them I don't always care for the performances. Also, I've noticed some strange subsonic anomlies on a few of them. That being said, I really like Sunny Sumter's recording for Mapleshade. I much prefer the offerings from JVC's XRCD remastering library. Lot's of new and old classics with new life injected into them. Check out Jacintha's releases, along with Chet Atkins' In Hollywood.
The Kendra Shank is sonically astounding and I can sort of enjoy the music. But I agree with the others, the content on this label is too weak, even given the great sonics.
A few of my favs:
The Sampler Disc is good.
A La Carte Brass...second cd
Clifford Jordon, "When Alto Was King"

I have to agree that some of the performances seem week. I have found the more I listen to them the more I grew with them and really enjoy listening to them.