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


Most of my listeing is female vocals and classic Jazz.  I have enjoyed current and older female singers.  I have most of Billie Holiday through current Diana Krall and Julia Fordham.  I enjoy good voices mainly acoustic.  It would be helpful if it is music I can sample online.  If the backing is mainly loud elctronic I would likely pass.  Thanks for your thoughts and experience. 

jusam

Loving this list.. Wow. I've been mining away.

 

Pop Pop by Rickie Lee Jones

Cafe Blue by Patricia Barber

The book of Longing by Luciana Souza

 

 

Thanks @frankmc195 

I haven’t heard of half the names, so fun times this weekend.

Keep ‘‘em coming 😁

Carmen Cuesta-Loeb, Sinne Eeg, Julianna Raye, Julienne Taylor, Emi Fujita, Denise King, Jean Frye Sidwell, Erin Raye, Ania, Claire Martin, Kirsti Huke, Anna Nygren, Laverne Butler, Sissell, Halie Loren, Lola Haag, Cecilia Dale, Ira Wolf, Anne Ducios, Gemma Hayes, The Molsbees, Iris Noelle, Lily Kershaw, Allison Buist.....Between the first list and the second is over 50... when you get through with these, let me know and I will give you the next 50.

A couple particularly well-recorded vocal albums come to mind:

Shirley Horn "Here's to Life" (1992, arrangements by Johnny Mandel)

Helen Merrill "What's New" (1954)

And any of Ella Fitzgerald/Norman Granz "songbook" collaborations on Verve. My favorite is the George & Ira Gershwin songbook.