Good Jazz/Vocal Reference CD Recommendations?

If you want one to test your system's ability to reproduce acoustic bass, check out Mulgrew Miller Live at Yoshi's (Vol. 2).

All jazz CD's from Telarc

Here are some recommendations based on superior music and sound:
•James Carter - Chasing the Gypsy
•Masada - Live in Seville
•Steve Turre - In the Spur of the Moment
•Abbey Lincoln - Gotta Pay the Band
•Stan Getz - Bossa and Ballads
•Mario Bauza - Tanga Suite

It has been two years. Hope you found some by now....not a peep from you....

Here are several which I have recently come across. All are great performances and all have absolutely stunnnig sonics.

!. "Dear Ella" Dee Dee Bridgewater
2. "Live at Yoshi's" Dee Dee Bridgewater
3. "This is New" Dee Dee Bridgewater
4. "85 Candles" Marian McPartland and many others including
Norah Jones

Not a whole lot of vocals on the Marian McPartland double CD except for maybe 4 cuts, but the sound on this CD is
stunning. I took it to the New York HiFi show and used it as an audition disc many times. In many rooms where I had it played, people were copying down the name of the disc.

DeeDee Bridgewater CD's also have stunning sonics, better than a number of the earlier selections listed above.. I
would second the Patricia Barber CD Cafe Blue listed
above as having indisputably superb sonics and would say that I have never heard a badly recorded Diana Krall CD, but insofar as the singing capability of the artists involved, DeeDee is on another level.