If you haven’t bought the recent Sara Bareilles album, Little Voice, yet, why? Honestly, she is fantastic. Fantastic voice, fantastic range, fantastic music, fantastic lyrics. Shook up the a cappella world in college. Toured with Maroon 5…in college. Buy it now. Don’t even bother previewing the songs; just buy it. You will not regret it. She has some full-length song previews from Little Voice on her website as well.

I have similar feelings about Sara Gazarek, who is perhaps more accomplished at this point in her career but much less well-known. I’m hesitant to offer such confident purchasing recommendations for her not because she’s in any way inferior musically to Sara B—she’s probably better, actually—but because she’s does jazz, and she does it well, but I realize it tends to be more of a niche interest, especially among the people who are likely reading this. Still, she is no less than phenomenal, and if you are a fan of jazz—any jazz—the former recommendations wholeheartedly apply: Buy her stuff now. I prefer her first album, Yours, but that’s probably because I’m more used to it by now. I recently bought her second (studio) album, Return to You, and while there’s some immediate goodness, I’m still exploring. It’s safe to say at this point that she’s Michael Bublé’s female counterpart, leaving Jane Monheit so far in the dust, she’ll probably have to be seen for sarcoidosis pretty soon. (Sorry…had to.) She, too, has full-length song previews from her most recent release on her website.

Incidentally, there are some interesting similarities between the two. Each went to college in LA. Each had great, early success in their respective genres there. Each is 25 (I think). Each…is named Sara?