Comments on: The Best Female Jazz Singers of All Time (Essential Listening) https://jazzfuel.com/best-female-jazz-singers/ Your Resource For All Things Jazz Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:18:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Norman Wayland https://jazzfuel.com/best-female-jazz-singers/#comment-28236 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:18:57 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=69691#comment-28236 In reply to Sheila Appleton.

I find it puzzling that Lena Horne is not on this list

]]> By: Sheila Appleton https://jazzfuel.com/best-female-jazz-singers/#comment-23374 Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:11:33 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=69691#comment-23374 I enjoyed going through the illustrious list of female jazz singers, and agree one hundred per cent that Ella is top, she was a unique one off, both in concert and on vynil.

]]> By: Bruce J Bruker https://jazzfuel.com/best-female-jazz-singers/#comment-22141 Tue, 09 Jul 2024 22:39:57 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=69691#comment-22141 , what a great voice, soothing and moving

]]> By: Tony Carter https://jazzfuel.com/best-female-jazz-singers/#comment-21724 Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:19:08 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=69691#comment-21724 I won’t argue with anyone on your list, but you need more than 15 names. I would add Abbey Lincoln to the list
It is also time to look forward to those that might become great.
I would include Jazzmeia Horn and Samara Joy
Tony

]]> By: Paulo Mathias https://jazzfuel.com/best-female-jazz-singers/#comment-15960 Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:18:11 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=69691#comment-15960 I agree with Paul Phillips, because Etta Jones is unforgatable. She sings as a paradise bird. Etta sing again always.

]]> By: Harriet https://jazzfuel.com/best-female-jazz-singers/#comment-15928 Sat, 10 Dec 2022 02:45:27 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=69691#comment-15928 I’ve been digging into the archives. I Love all your compilations, and I know it’s impossible to fit everyone into a list of 15, but I was surprised you didn’t mention Dakota Staton as one of the great female vocalists. The Late Late Show is a desert island disc.

]]> By: Chloe Kennedy https://jazzfuel.com/best-female-jazz-singers/#comment-15815 Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:42:20 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=69691#comment-15815 No mention of Betty Carter. She was jazz personified.

]]> By: Matt Fripp https://jazzfuel.com/best-female-jazz-singers/#comment-12822 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:46:07 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=69691#comment-12822 In reply to Paul Phillips.

Thanks for sharing some great extra listening tips Paul!

]]> By: Paul Phillips https://jazzfuel.com/best-female-jazz-singers/#comment-12816 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 02:13:43 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=69691#comment-12816 This is a pretty darn good list and you can never make everyone happy but two of the greatest jazz females are missing from this list. Etta Jones (not James) – please listen to her “Don’t Go to Strangers” and in my humble opinion the best version ever of Nature Boy with Jerome Richardson on sax. The other extremely overlooked jazz singer – Lorez Alexandria. Listen to her version of Baltimore Oriole. She recorded it in 1957 then again in 1963. The ‘63 is my fav.

]]> By: Sonja https://jazzfuel.com/best-female-jazz-singers/#comment-12200 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:33:22 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=69691#comment-12200 Thank you so much,I loved to read this article! So well balanced and inspiring too. Bless you all:)

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