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

Cai Qin. She is a chinese vocalist and is awesome. While you wont understand the words, no need. The music is beautiful and so are the sonics. You can probably get it outside of Hong Kong in Chinese music stores in places where there are chinese vendors, chinatown, etc. JVC I think makes and XRCD of this. I believe the CD number is 7243 5 32378 20. I know Chinese audiophiles use this alot for demonstration. It was even playing in a famous chinese movie in a high end audio store for one scene. I am not Chinese but my wife is. I learned about her from a work associate in Taiwan. Another good chinese vocalist is Teresa Teng. You wont understand the words but trust me, the music, voice and sonics on most CD's are good.

Sarah Vaughn, Rosemary Clooney, Dinah Washington

Madeleine Peyroux.

Mary Stallings has been mentioned before. She has a new release "Rember Love" on Half Note Records. Some scat, some lush jazz renditions of standards. Excellent music, recording is very high quality. Good place to start if you haven't heard her yet.

Quick follow up - I can't edit worth a crap! The Stallings album is "Remember Love".