montunoman: Thanks for turning me on to Esperanza Spalding's music. Here's a nice TV clip interview + her performing . Here's Spalding's rendition of Stevie Wonder's song Overjoyed .

Another female artist's music that I recently discovered and like a lot is german jazz vocalist: Lyambiko . I especially like the album Saffronia in which she pays tribute to jazz vocalist legend Nina Simone.

[This message has been edited by Scottyee (edited 11-28-2010).]