Well-produced recent jazz cd's - recommendations?

I recently picked up a CD by Anat Cohen, who is mentioned above by Tomcy6. I bought her 2012 release "Claroscuro", which is my first exposure to her. The Claroscuro CD is fantastic. It has an unusually appealing selection of tunes, all wonderfully performed, and with very respectable sound quality. I've always liked clarinet, and for some strange reason it's not all that common in jazz. No doubt I'll be buying more Anat Cohen!

For both musical interest and great sound, I recommend the following:

Anouar Brehem-Thimar
Stefano Battaliglia-Re: Passolini
Scott Colley-Architect of the Silent Moment
Billy Childs-Lyric

Speaking of Billy Childs - The Child Within is also a great disk.

Esperanza Spalding - Esperanza
Nicholas Payton - Payton Place
Pat Metheny - The Way Up -or- Unity Band

Tia Fuller - Decisive Steps. Tia on Sax with her female band. Guest appearance on a few tracks is Christian Mcbride. I have to mention Kim Thompson on drums. You will end up reading the liner notes a few times in disbelief that it IS actually a woman drummer!!
Nice energy and composition on this one!

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!