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Medeski, Martin and Wood, the albums Last Chance to Dance Trance(something like that, it is a hits album), and Combustication.

This trio is more of a house/urban Jazz. They are amazing in concert, always jamming.

Dianna Krall. Yes, she is the red headed step child of the jazz industry. The majority of the industry does nto liek here, but now reluctantly accepts her because of the number of albums she sells. I love her voice, she can be soft one song, then harsh yet sexy the next.

Medeski, Martin and Wood. You guys remember ZeN right, poor guy has been working too much to have the time to post. Anyways, he gave me one their CDs, and it is pretty good.

Someone that I just came across becaues a news segment about her is Eva Cassidy. She past away from cancer in 1996, but became well known after the fact. I just picked up her latest release. This woman had a VOICE....I am going to get the other CDs. You can learn more about here http://evacassidy.org/eva/

I also like Diana Krall, I have one her DVD-A discs. Interesting that she is now married to Elvis Costello.

I (or rather, my brother) discovered Eva Cassidy last year and have been hooked ever since. She was one white lady who coul really feel the music. Her version of Sting's "Fields of Gold" is haunting.

I think Eva Casidy is the most under rated female singer ever. Her music takes me to another place. I'm sad that she's gone.

Medeski, Martin and Wood
Some of my wife's favorites and played heavily during the dinner hour at our wedding if i recall.

NEWS

I've had this cd for awhile, but had only listened to it in my car. It's what you'd call "modern jazz" I guess. I was somewhat impressed, but being that I'm a long time Prince fan, it took a bit of getting used to, because this is nothing what you'd expect from Prince.

Last night I threw it into my home system. OH MY GOD! I've had my Axioms and Hsu for quite a long time, and I've listened to a ton of music, but nothing has sounded so much like "being there" as this disc. Wowie, wow, wow, wow.

I just picked up Medeski, Martin, and Wood's Uninvisible.

I've only been able to play it in my car on the way home from Best Buy, but I really liked what I heard. Very rich textures, some funk and trance-like influences, but definitely founded on Jazz. I can't wait to play it on the home system. (Track 6 should really give my SVS a workout. My car's Bose system could barely keep up. )

Among many classics and favorites, many on vinyl, these are several that I think are both great musically and sound great on CD:

* Stan Getz -- Big Band Bossnova: This is awesome, one of the coolest sounding CDs I own.
* The John Coltrane Anthology: There's so much Coltrane out there, not all of it as well recorded and much of it better on vinyl, but this is a very good CD entry. And if you don't own any John Coltrane, well, enough said.
* Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong (that's the title), from Verve Compact Jazz series: Someone else mentioned this and let me second it. Who knows how it was recorded, but whatever it is, something about the register and interplay of their voices makes this a fantastic sounding CD, and the music is wonderful -- which was not always true of Louis Armtrong by this point in his career.
* Ella Fitzgerald, The Cole Porter Songbook, Vol. 2: An obvious choice but I had to mention it. This doesn't sound as good recording-wise as the Ella & Louis CD, but it's so great. We listen to it a lot.

Leaving out many favorites unknown to me on CD, but these are classics.

Birdman

I can't classify myself as a Jazz addict, but I did read in a recent article in Mojo mag that Lea DeLaria does some really intersting covers of well known songs in a jazz take (the Doors - People are Strange, No Doubt's - Just a Girl, Patti Smith's - Dancing Barefoot). I haven't checked them out personally, but you 'jazzheads' may want to.

I'd just like to throw in a plug for "My Favorite Things" by John Coltrane as well as "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis. Truly some excellent albums (and songs!)