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

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.

.........actually the above should have said June Christy,...not Julie ... although sultry would apply to both.

Ernestine Anderson. Lots of great music on Concord Records.

Meech33, nice thread. I'm sure you're looking for new (modern) singers, but just a quick mention of some of the oldtimers out of respect - Sarah Vaughn, Ella, Nina Simone, Etta James and more recently Eva Cassidy (very seductive - although a dfferent style of jazz/soft blues).