1920's Classic Blues Singers
Mamie Smith (1920, first blues recording)
Ma Rainey
Bessie Smith ("Empress of teh Blues")
Ida Cox
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
Sippie Wallace
Alberta Hunter
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Pacesetters of the Late 1920s
Ethel Waters
Annette Hanshaw
Connie Boswell
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The Definitive Swing Singer
Billie Holiday
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Swing Era
Mildred Bailey | Ivie Anderson |
Helen Ward | Helen Forrest |
Lee Wiley | Helen Humes |
Maxine Sullivan | |
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Two Major Innovators
Ella Fitzgerald
Sarah Vaughan
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1940s / 1950s
Anita O'Day | June Christy |
Dinah Washington | Peggy Lee |
Helen Merrill | Chris Connor |
Annie Ross | Betty Roche |
Carmen McRae | |
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Avantgarde
Betty Carter | Jeanne Lee |
Patty Waters | Urszula Dudziak |
Karin Krog | Jay Clayton |
Norma Winstone | Maggie Nicols |
Lauren Newton | Kate Hammett-Vaughan |
Ann Dyer | |
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1960s to Present
Abbey Lincoln | Sheila Jordan |
Astrud Gilberto | Ernestine Anderson |
Lorez Alexandria | Ruth Brown |
Irene Kral | Etta Jones |
Carol Sloane | Flora Purim |
Janet Lawson | Dee Dee Bridgewater |
Shirley Horn | Michele Hendricks |
Dianne Reeves | Diane Schuur |
Cassandra Wilson | Carmen Lundy |
Vanessa Rubin | Nnenna Freelon |
Banu Gibson | Roseanna Vitro |
Diana Krall | Kartyn Allison |
Patricia Barber | Holly Cole |
Stephanie Haynes | Madeline Eastman |
Kitty Margolis | |
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