Modern day female jazz recommendations

Since I’m into this thread now, my suggestions are ( in no particular order)

Carmen McRae
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Cassandra Wilson
Ernestine Anderson

Peggy Lee
Sarah Vaughan
Dinah Washington.

I know the last three are not modern day, but they have had such an enormous influence on me I wanted to list them.

Albert, I saw Rachael mentioned (on AA) about a week ago and fell in love with what I have heard. I hope some great vinyl is in her future as I think it would certainly sell well. For 23 years old, she has potential for greatness.

Steve

My new favorite is Rene Marie. You can down load some free music from her website.

You need to check out Rachael Price that is mentioned
in Tabl10s's post.

A lot of good suggestions, I would add one name knowone has mentioned, a wonderful Scandinavian singer called Katrine Madsen. There really is a lot of good Jazz coming out of Scandinavia, perhaps it's the long dark winters. She does'nt have a large discography, but has an expressive, smoky contralto voice. I love Holly Cole, Karrin Allyson, Stacey Kent and others, but Katrine is my favourite. "You are so beautiful" is a great starting point, but all her CD's are strongly recommended, nothing on LP as far as I know.