Jazz recommendations for a beginner?

Newbee I think you'vegot me mixed up with my namesake Sd Campbell (it happens a lot actually..poor Sd) who is the real Jazz expert.
To answer your point.
I apologise I didn't mean to seem eltist at all.
Zargon's post deals very well with the category issue and I agree whole heartedly with his comments on Eva Cassidy.
I guess the point I was trying to make (my last reply wasn't allowed to be posted)that there is a possibilty that Jorge may not actually like instrumental Jazz at all.
To be positive I will recommend Take 5 by Dave Brubeck.

Get the Crusaders reunion cd - very nice and good guest list including Eric Clapton on 2 tracks with some very nice gittar work.

Female vocal: "Clap hands, here comes Charlie" Ella Fitzgerald

Trio: "Sunday at the Village Vanguard" Bill Evans Trio

Sax: "Way Out West", Saxaphone Colossus" Sonny Rollins

Horns: "Sketches of Spain" Miles Davis (arrangements by Gil Evans)

Quartet: "Time Out" Dave Brubeck

Jazz "supergroups": CTI records, w/ engineering by Rudy Van Gelder put out some recordings in the 60's and 70's featuring folks like Hubert Laws, George Benson, Ron Carter, etc. These were some interesting works. Some live, some studio. I don't know if they have ever been released on CD however.

First of all, thanks all of you guys for the kind suggestions. It seems that the perception of most of you has been that I prefer vocals over instrumental, but actually I feel is the contrary. Yes, I liked Krall but actually I felt more atraction for Barber, and what I really really liked was tracks 2 and 11 (I forgot the track names) on Cafe Blue, does anyboby can tell me what kind of jazz (if it is jazz) is this? I also remembered that my Stereophile CD 3 had one jazz track ("Nevermind" from "Killer Bees" album with Airto Moreira and the Gods of Jazz), so I played that track yesterday at night and felt that kind of jazz is what I really like since it was similar (to me) to those tracks (2, 11) on Barber's cd. But I'm open minded for other kind of jazz that you think I could appreciate now, vocals or instrumental.

I agree with some of you that mentioned that about "taste adquired", and I don't argue "Kind of Blue" is a super album (the best for some of you) and that I might love it in the future, it's just that as a beginner I'm not ready to appreciate it yet, I found it somewhat repetitive.

Thanks again guys, I'm confident that you will put me on the right track with your suggestions. Any more recommendations?

jorge you can bet you will love "kind of blue" in the future.I'm also kind of new to jazz and I remember my first live show about 6 yrs ago, it was Terrence Blachard Quintet I tell you I left that place with a headache.There was so much stuff going on within those five guys that is was incredible.As you listen and learn more you will appreciate what those guys are doing and how difficult it is to reach a level of playing that high, hell you might event get into Tim Berne or John Zorn stuff, i know i did and I can get enough of it