Modern day female jazz recommendations


We all know the classics from decades ago. What are your favorite your more contemporary female jazz singers of today?

Living close to Nashville I have the opportunity to see and hear a lot of up and coming artists. Nashville is NOT just country music by a long shot.

I'll start with Diana Krall....
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"All that's missing from these genre relaxed works is the murmer of conversations and the tinkling of glassware" - Garn509 - lol, I couldn't agree with you more.
Rachelle Ferrell went the R&B route, but her second album "First Instrument" is pure Jazz and remains my favorite Female Jazz vocal album to this day. It has only two stars on allmusic.com and no one seems to know about it, but I think it is brilliant.