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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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robsker
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the German label Nagel Hayer has put out 40 or so CD's in the past 20 years --- all phenomenal. Most of them are recorded live --- with the best sonics of any live jazz ever recorded. And wow... there is some awesome music on that label.

I generally listen to jazz that was recorded between 1955 - 1963 --- probably 85-95% of my listening is from the 400 CD's i have from that period. For the remaining 10-15% --- well is it almost entirely Nagel Hayer CDs. The variety of jazz is vast at that label and it is all OUTSTANDING.

Recording quality is better than Mapleshade, Reference Recordings or other audiophile labels --- and unlike those labels (where the music tends to be ranging from crap to decent) --- the music ranges from really good to amazing.

Look them up!
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