Jazz saxophone music recommendations

It has been a while since last time I wrote about the saxophone music I have been listening to. These are some good ones I listened to in the past few years:

- Kris Allen: Beloved
This CD is recommended by my favorite Podcast: "In the Groove - Jazz and Beyond, by Ken" as Kris Allen is a Hartford musician local to the Podcaster. It got my attention as Allen is an alto player and I was totally into alto lately. And I found this album interesting immediately because it featured 2 sax (Allen on alto and Frank Kozyra on tenor) but no piano (actually no chordal instrument at all) and I could see the challenge (which he explained here) It's worthwhile to mention the rhythm section provided great support and was recorded well.

- Antonio Arnedo: Travesia
This jazz album is also piano-less but it does feature a chordal instrument: guitar played by the highly regarded Ben Monder. Arnedo played some very beautiful and sometimes haunting soprano here. 

- Bill Bruford's Earthworks: A Part, yet Apart
Bill Bruford is probably more well-known as the drummer of the progressive rock band Yes. However, he has also been playing jazz for a long time (saw him with his fusion group Earthworks at the Knitting Factory in 1999 and so impressed that I bought their "The Sound of Surprise" CD later on, which was the release after this one) And I particularly enjoy the tenor and soprano saxophone parts on this album, played by Patrick Clahar.

- Reggie Codrington: Always in Motion
Well, this is another detour, to smooth jazz. Saxophonist Codrignton is definitely not a big name you hear often like Dave Koz, Marion Meadow or Everett Harp but this is one high quality smooth jazz album with the "classic" smooth sax sound, beautiful playing on soulful ballad and energetic on funky tunes. Judging from the varieties of old and new artists on Smooth Jazz channels (like Music Choice provided by cable) and podcasts, I think the scene is actually quite healthy, contrary to what the "smooth jazz hating" music critics would like to portray.

Coin show

My mom loves collecting stuff like stamps and rare money (paper or coins) so I learned that from her when I was a kid. I don't have as much enthusiasm though. So my collections have grown just a tiny bit from those days. And I got some nice additions from the first coin show I have ever attended last week as I took my son there to fulfill his requirement for a boy scout merit badge. And it was his lucky day: one seller was very eager to teach us some basics of collecting and while we were there one of his customer bought 100 $1 coins that worths $1800 and suggested the seller to give one to my son. We also learned from him that 1921 silver dollar is known as a Morgan dollar, and it contains real silver (the amount of silver itself worths ~$13 today) Nowadays coins do not contain any precious metal. Another beautiful coin I saw there that I would like to collect but too expensive was an Indian head $5 gold coin. It worths ~$420 today with ~$300 of gold content.
Then we checked out another seller's interesting paper notes. He showed us some special US dollar that was stamped with a Hawaiian brown seal. Those notes were released to the Islands after the Pearl Harbor attack as a counter-measure: all notes were replaced there with the stamped notes just in case the Japanese put in some counterfeits to screw up the system (like what they did in Asia during WWII)
Before we left, I visited a seller with many inexpensive foreign coins. Since I don't really have much knowledge, I randomly pick the ones with designs I like and bought 11 for $4.
It was fun.

Update: my son and I both entered the show's prize draw and my son was so lucky to win a buffalo nickel in mint condition!