I need a female jazz vocalist. No Krall, No Norah


I've listened to so much Norah Jones and Diana Krall in the last month I feel like I know the personally. I'm ready to get hooked on a new sultry lady but I need some good suggestions.
meech33
Ah, Yes. Dave's True Story!! Incredible lyrics. Wonderful
voice on Kelly (Dave's not bad either). Don't make enough
albums...
Helen Merrill with Clifford Brown on Mercury from 1954. The tube mic brings this lady inTO the room...THIS is sexy and Clifford's trumpet sounds amazing. Mono, but definitely audiophile stuff.
There are plenty...all one has to do is listen to some real Jazz stations...like small college stations, rather than the "smooth jazz' mainstream mall music.

Try, Julia Fordham, Hellen Merrill, Dinah Washington, Rosie Clooney, Shirley Horn, Carmen McCrea, Julie Christy, even the "standards" cd that Ann Murray did,"Croonin" is better than most of the sexual problems that Norah seems to be trying, and failing, to sound sultry on.