Reference Vocal/Piano/Sax/Guitar CD s

More selections:

Clifford Jordan, "Live at Ethel's" on Mapleshade (Tenor Sax)
Ibrahim Ferrer, "Buena Vista Social Club" (Male Vocals)
Natalie Cole, "Take A Look" (Female Vocals)
Virginia Rodrigues, "Sol Negro" (Portuguese Female Vocals)
Les Double Six, "Les Double Six", (French Jazz Vocal Group)
Gloria Estefan, "Gloria"
Sarah McLauglin, "Surfacing" (Great female vocal recording and also great deep room rattling bass on track 2, if your system can reproduce it)

For high fidelity demonstration purposes, the recordings in the first set are some of the highest quality discs that I have ever heard. The CD's in this post are more commercial and while the sound is very good, they probably don't generally reach the sound quality level of those in the earlier post.

Pick up a copy of Eva Cassidy's Live At Blues Alley. IT will definetly give you a vocal & piano reference. For guitar try Johnny A ,Sometime Tuesday Morning on Aglaophone records.

solo piano .. John Lewis "evolution" The pianist reworks materpieces such as "Afternoon in Paris" and "Django" and the recording is the best of a solo piano that I've heard.
For Saxophone I would recommend "Oscar Peterson meet Ben Webster" for Ben's huge warm tenor sound. "Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Jazz Leaders" and Sonny Rollins "Way Out West" HAnk Mobley "Soul Station" for Vocals Shirley Horn's "You Won't Forget Me" Recorded by David Baker and featuring a stunning and rare guest spot by Miles Davis.

Wow!!! (so many recommendations) :-)
I thank you all very much for taking the time to provide all of these great titles for me to sample. Special thanks to those who also take the time to describe in detail what to look for in the CD (imaging, soundstage, ect.). It will take me some time to go through all these great titles and pick out my top 5 as reference CD's. In the mean time, I wish you all great health and happy listening.

Keith Jarrett has a bunch of recordings on the ECM label. Take your pick. Jan Garbarek "Rites" Kenny Wheeler's Angel Song is tops. Steve Tibbetts These are all ECM. Check their website