Orpheus, I have several Dave Pike albums, and I think I can say that I like him. 'Pike's Peak' you have, with Bill Evans, I think that one deserves to be in any decent jazz collection. For Bossa Nova Carnival I can only say that on that album Pike plays with Kenny Burell and Clark Terry, to me its a very nice and subtle album, with gentle melodies.
https://youtu.be/_30XmNMsKvY As for 'Manhattan Latin', I had it for years, did not listen it much, but couple weeks ago I had some guests at home and played it and to my surprise, it was great, so much that I checked again who plays there...Dave Burns on trumpet (mentioned him before as one of 'great underrated' with C.Corea, Don Friedman among ohers. Here is the clip...there are two sides, faster and more mellow...here are two clips
https://youtu.be/ZTfHn8Fx_K4https://youtu.be/ncBWglTCY7s'Jazz for jazz set' is his album that I had first, very happy sounding album,nothing pretentious, I could imagine people having a party, listening to that groovy music...
Again, with ocasional bursts of Clark Terry muted trumpet...
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https://youtu.be/uEWZQvqN7Ushttps://youtu.be/IAsNJfhNagk'Limbo Carnival' is with T.Flanagan, there are couple words that will tell you more under this clip...
https://youtu.be/4fsxfmiFVDwhttps://youtu.be/4fsxfmiFVDwI am looking to buy one more his album, from that period.