2006 BEST Female Vocal CD/SACD/XRCD

Sara K - Water Falls, is a nice bluesy album, and extremely well recorded. I also love Rosie Thomas's When We Were Small. It's leagues above the rest of her small catalog (mentioning that so if you've heard anything else by her don't judge). It's become one of my all-time favorites, actually.

Jacintha - "Jacintha Is Her Name"
Linda Ronstadt - "What's New".
Eliane Elias - "Dreamer"
Madeleine Peyroux - "Half the Perfect World" this one is a 2006 release

forgot one...

Cesaria Evora - "The Very Best of Cesaria Evora"
brilliant singer by the way

Keeping it to 2006 narrows things down a bit, but a very nice standards singer is Robin McKelle, who debuted this year with her self-titled cd. Just a couple of years older, coming out in 2004, the "all of our names" cd from Sarah Harmer gets a lot of play on my system -- the sound quality is also quite good. Audphile1, I've heard Peyroux and she is very good but I've not yet purchased any of her cd's -- need to leave something for the gift list ;-)

I know it is hard, but since my title is BEST female vocalist of 2006, which mean just ONE female can entitle the best! Give the name of vocalist and the name of CD, and explain why you think she is the best?

thanks..