Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue on CD. Great jazz voice.
I actually don't really like her voice all the time, particularly when she tries to hit high notes, but the music is great. I have 4 SACDs from her - Cafe Blue, Companion, Night Club, and Modern Cool and they are easily among the best recordings I own. They are all stereo but they sound like you are THERE. Companion is live and it is absolutely stunning.
I listened to the Danny Elfman arrangement last night and it is very good. The sound is actually not as good as I had hoped for SACD, but it is decent. The music definitely has moments where one can tell it is Elfman composed for sure, but there's a lot of stuff that sounds more classical. Overall a good disc.
I also picked up Steven Wilson Insurgentes DVD on the same order as the Elfman SACD and I was checking out the 6 bonus tracks from the Insurgentes sessions. A few weren't so great, but there are a few that were freaking awesome. It also includes some Bass Communion live tracks...um...that's not music, it is noise
But I still like it for what it is. Can't say I would buy an album of that, but the 5.1 tracks on the DVD sound freaking AMAZING; definitely super well recorded/mastered/mixed.