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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Here's a couple straight ahead jazz albums that sound great:

Ray Brown / Monty Alexander / Russell Malone (2002)

Anat Cohen (clarinet) - Notes From The Village (2008)

For a jazzy, bluesy, rock mix with great sound:

Hope Waits (2007) (no relation to Tom Waits)
As Jfz said, anything from ECM will sound outstanding. Their catalog has some of the best jazz of the modern era.
Thank god for the twenty year window.

Musician - Ernie Watts

In Full Swing - Mark O Connor

Rich