Good Jazz/Vocal Reference CD Recommendations?

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.

Here is one more. This is not a reference quality recording sonically, but it is very, very good even by today's standards.

"Alexandria the Great" Lorez Alexandria

This is a reissue of a recording originally done in the 60's, I believe, by a relatively unknown jazz singer.
She has a wonderful voice which is clear and sweet, but doesn't lack for jazz phrasing like some of the current top selling female vocalists of today. I heard this CD in the record store over their sound system and I knew that I had to get it. I wondered who is this woman and why I never had ever heard of her before. In my opinion, she ought to rank in the top 10 jazz singers of the last 50 years, based on her performance on this CD alone. As I indicated, the CD is not reference sonic quality by today's standard, but very, very good.