Favorite Obscure Jazz CD

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Ants in a Trance by Mitch Seidman.

Seidman, who teaches ear training at Berklee College of Music, is one of my favorite guitarists.

I came across this CD completely by accident. I got a critic's copy from a now-defunct weekly newspaper, which only covered live music.

"Ants in a Trance" has guitar, bass, bass clarinet and viola. It has a distinct "Jimmy Guiffre/chamber jazz" kind of feel to it. (In fact, Seidman covers Guiffre's "Frog Legs" here.)

http://www.mitchseidman.com/

I listen to it about as much as any of my many other much more famous jazz favorites, including works by Kenny Burrell and Wes Montgomery.