Baaba Maal, Baayo. Baaba Maal playing acoustic stuff. Of course, this is good. (I don't like his electronic music I've heard, though.)
Bembeya Jazz National, The Syliphone Years. A very influential Guinean orchestra, a 2-CD compilation of recordings from the 60's and early 70's. Listening to it right now for the first time, and it's real fine stuff. Very Cuban influenced, definitely, but these guys were definitely originals.
Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of American Music (5 CD box set). I bought this on some sort of "I must educate myself" trip. It just reminds me further why I hate jazz. The set is arranged from earlier stuff to later stuff, and it becomes progressively unbearable to me. The first couple CDs have a bunch of nice old stuff (blues, ragtime), interspersed with figures like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, who were not bad, but were definitely a pointer towards things to come. Then, at some point around Charlie Parker's entrance into the scene, it all degenerates into a mass of wank.
I made the mistake of trying to listen to Byrd and Getz's Desafinado. I couldn't sit through it. They were just murdering the song. They just don't understand it.
Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans (5 CD box set). Haven't heard the whose thing yet, much less sat down to listen to it carefully, but it's pretty good so far. Very large variety of music. I don't like some of their Salsa tracks, though, but of course, I'm picky as hell.
I do like New Orleans jazz band style very much, too-the way each player sounds like they're playing completely independently of the others, yet everything falls into place.