Modern day female jazz recommendations

Carmen Gomes is on the top of my list.
The Naim forum members voted her ''Thousand Shades of Blue'' album one of the top audiophile downloads of 2013.
They are giving the title track away as a free Studio Master
Wav download at the Sound Liaison site at the moment:
http://soundliaison.com

'Her style is bluesy and intimate with a sexy voice that's sweet as dark tupelo honey, and her interpretations are unerring. this intimate effort is one of the best and best-sounding jazz vocal albums to come along in many a day.''
"I've seldom heard recordings that were so successful in both performance and sound aspects.''
quotes from Rad Bennett's review in the audiophile SoundStage! Magazine.

There is a nice little video of the title track on you tube,
not the same version as on the album but pretty close and you see the the Sound Liaison engineer Frans de Rond in action. Carmen Gomes

Cecile McLorin Salvant's debut LP "Woman Child" is spectacular and well recorded. Highly recommended. Really bummed that I had to work during her last visit to Seattle.

http://www.mackavenue.com/artists/detail/cecile_mclorin_salvant/

Thank you Jazdoc,

I ordered Cecile McLorin Salvant's LP.

Diana Krall's best hits album is really good. Melody Gardot and Madeliene Peyroux are also great. Heather Rigdon is another great singer who is not very well known.

First, as a new member let me first complement one and all who have added to this thread. Surprisingly, I see no mention of the late great Anita O'Day so if you have not listened to her or had forgotten her, please give a listen. One of the great ones by any standard. Now on to the modern era, please check out Nicole Henry from Miami. My favorite album has her backed by the late Eddie Higgins on piano. Cheryl Bentyne, perhaps best known for her work in the Manhattan Transfer, has done some dynamite solo albums focusing on Gershwin in one, Porter in another and so on. Highly recommended. Although mentioned earlier in this thread, I think the recommendation too measured, there is no need to not declare Maria Muldaur perhaps the greatest current female vocalist of the American Song Book. She can sing jazz and does with flair, and blues and gospel and on and on. No need for excuses, she deserves our attention.