Modern day female jazz recommendations

Check out the label Max Jazz.Also I like Stacey Ken and Dizzy Gillespie's daughter had some great releases no to long ago called "Some Cat's Know" that is sooooo sexy!!!if your a novice (after 6K jazz recordings in past 20 years I wish I had never seen that Movie about Chet Baler "Let's Get Lost".It's along story) I ran the jazz section of a CD/hgh end shop for 6 years.Email if you want specifics but 1)Billie2)Ella3)Sara Vaughn4)Dinah Washinton5)Betty Carter.I'd add Cris Connor and Anita O'Day to that list.Best today is not thje over exposed now ruined with lousy commercial production Diann Krall but Dianne Reeves.All jazz lovers should get a copy of The All Music Guide To Jazz and use the web site www.amg.com to look up individuals and use the music maps for instruments (including voice) and styles/idoms from Storyville in WWW I to today and break it down very well.
Chazz

Looked at my old post and forgot to mention that Diz's daughter is named Jeanie Bryson.Her stuff is great.Diane Reeves is best out there now.Also if you can find early 70's LP/CD of Dee Dee Bridgewater (right up thier with Reeves) is one she did called "Afro Blue".Stunning!!!!!

Get the Pamela Brown CD with Horace Parlan.Her career mainly in Europe but she's great.Did I mention Stacey Kent before
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Chazz

Forgot to mention Carrol Kidd in last post here.I like a lot of Tracey Kent and her husband tenor man Jim Tomlinson usually backs her and she shows up on his CD's-very Prez/Zoot/Harry Allen line of as opposed to Webster/Hawkins lineage).Roberta Gambrini is fine Italian singer.But right now I think Dee Dee Bridgewater and Diane Reeves are the top singers.
Chazz

Been giving Sunny Sumter another spin as I found her first CD and then went back to her Larry Willis produced Mappleshade.
Chazz