Good Female Jazz Anyone?

I like Billy Holiday,Nina Simone,Rickie-Lee Jones,Ella Fitzgerald - I play alot of their songs on the piano every weekend in a restaurant.I like the songs Norah Jones did with Dolly Parton too - quite an unusual combination

 

Feist.....now thats goood great and grand female jazz vocals....

 

Lena Horne or is it Nina?? hmm...

 

Ella Fitzgerald as someone already mentioned, and Etta James!

 

Stacey Kent

 

Sarah Vaughan is one of my favorites.

 

http://www.myspace.com/lyingdelilah3

check out this mama and her two men.....she has such and amazing voice and her piano licks are out of this world.

 

Try Sun Ra with June Tyson on vocals. I bet you like it.

 

Nina Simone for sure.....try Diana Krall....it sounds like what you are looking for would be someone like her....I bet you wont be disappointed

 

suzanne vega...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AnvvvFMOBk


Also, I wish you could hear my best friend sing...she auditioned and made it to the top! she's the top alto solo jazz singer of all Illinois!

 

Victoria Tolstoy, her album "My Swedish Heart" is so good...

 

personally ive gotten into Amy winehouse, i love her work. but everyone likes different things.

 

thnx for the link..I enjoyed it.
this girl has a pretty voice.

 

Ofc, Billy Holiday, Sarah Waughan, Nina Simone, but try also Dinah Washington, she's a wonderful singer!...

 

Yes! Etta James and Feist also Phoebe Snow her jazz is kinda blues and folk infulenced. Did a jazzy cover of Janis's piece of my heart fucking fabulous man!

 

Check out Alice Coltrane. She has made some great original music.

 

madeleine peyroux and anjani thomas , both are great and preety similar . anjani thomas has worked with leonard cohen for her album "blue alert" , and madeleine peyroux sings some cohen and anjani songs ( though she also has her own creations )
another recomandation , though it might prove a bit more difficult to find , maria raducanu , a romanian jazz singer .
and , of course , nina simone , ella fitzgerald , billie holliday and sarah vaughan

 

I just posted another thread and then saw your post...check out trumpet player cindy bradley. www.cindybradley.com

I still love Norah Jones' first album too!

 

I forgot to mention Diana Crall.....I just woke up on one of those lazy days and put her album "Love scenes" on, it's raining outside and, man, she makes this morning just perfect.......

 

nina simone is the most enchanting woman in the world, and her performances were so great and funny! i love her too much!