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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Showing 1 response by whmuckley

Some piano, bass & drum trio suggestions:
Yelena Eckemoff-latest is Glass Song, some earlier are a bit hard to come by, but can be found on Amazon. Peter Erskine is the drummer on this & a couple of others.
Erskine's trio on ECM are also excellent.
Bley/Haden/Modian Memoirs is in the same league.
All are very well recorded.
Enjoy!