Well-produced recent jazz cd's - recommendations?


Hey all,

Apologies if this is a redundant question/thread; lemme know if it is. Anyhow, My system consists of Reference 3a de Capo i's powered by a YBA 201 integrated, fed by a Rotel 1072 cd player all connected by Clear Day cables and IC's. I use it for mostly well-produced modern folk and jazz - think Iron and Wine, the Bad Plus, Hank Dogs, Greg Brown, Jim Hall, Diana Krall, Innocence Mission, Marc Johnson/Eliane Elias, etc.

I'm looking for recommendations for similar, well-produced artists and cd's. No smooth jazz (though the Yellowjackets are wonderful!); group vocal, or cheese; but just good, musically -layered instrumental jazz made in the last 20 years.

Any ideas? And thank you.
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"No doubt I'll be buying more Anat Cohen!"

I'm a big Anat Cohen fan(and her label; ANZIC)! 1st heard her at a used CD shop, goin' thru the racks, I saw this dbl CD that had the print sides printed to look like LP's! I never heard of the band or the musicians but figured 'what the heck' and brought it to the in-store listening station. The band - The Waverly 7 - Yo Bobby! A great record that served to introduce me to a new group of musicians, highly recommended! Since than I own 95% of Cohen's discography, she's a very gifted artist. I strongly recommend her Big Band record; 'Noir' featuring the Anzic Orchestra. She's released 2 live at the Village Vanguard records, the 2nd; 'Clarinetwork...' featuring her only on clarinet (obviously!) is terrific! While she favors different group configurations from disc to disc, they uniformly all sound great!