Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried...

My nominations, in unranked order...

k.d. Lang - esp. album Shadowland which is more torch than twang

Shirley Bassey - esp. 1987 single with Yello "The Rhythm Divine"

Lisa Gerrard w/ Dead Can Dance and solo

Sheila Chandra - "Sacred Stones"

Amina Alaoui - "Amours ou Trop Tard Me Suis Pris"

Cesaria Evora

Eefje de Visser - always in Dutch

Snatam Kaur - "Mu Mantra Snatam Kaur"

Azam Ali

Beth Orton

Norah Jones

Rickie Lee Jones - of course

Sarah McLachlan - Dirty Little Secret

Samantha James - Rise 

Natania Davrath - Songs of the Auvergne (TAS superdisc)

Anything KD Lang sings that isn't country is great and to me she is the absolute best.

@frankmc195: Julianna Raye! I do believe you are the only other person I have ever heard mention her name. Her two albums are faves of mine, and are quite different from one another. Of the two I like the first---Something Peculiar, produced by Jeff Lynne---the most. I met her in L.A. about twenty years ago, and she was really sweet, absolutely delightful. Van Dyke Parks is also a fan of hers.

@curiousjim

"Currently I’m on Amazon music and unfortunately Taking a chance on love isn’t on it. That’s why I was asking, because I couldn’t find it. Just looked again.☹️"

Sorry you could not find it on Amazon.

The "discogs" page below lists "19 for sale from $12.87" in various formats -- CD, SACD, LP --  mainly offered from Japan where the Venus label is based. (I bought my vinyl LP of Taking a Chance on Love from a seller in Japan.)

Where to start. Looking at the ones shown here I still see mostly faces and voices from the past. I look constantly for new talent and I often find it coming out of S. Korea or some other oriental country. Like Yao Si Ting, and what Youn Sun Nah does in her live video from 'Théâtre du Châtelet' in the songs "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and "Calypso Blues", should be made Illegal, but all fun aside though she uses a  certain amount of electronic wizardry, her voice is nearly unmatchable. Then for slightly older but still respectable names, there is Melody Gardot and Sarah McKenzie among so many others.

If you check out AllAboutJazz.com and Bestofjazz.org you can keep up to the minute on everything that is coming about and everything you have missed along the way.