I've made a compilation of all sorts of female jazz singers, 203 songs that keep on rotating in iTunes for the last couple of days... from Mildred Bailey and Ethel Waters (1920-30) over Billie Holiday, the Boswell Sisters and the Andrews Sisters, Sarah Vaughn, Kay Starr, Peggy Lee, Diane Reeves, to the contemporary jazz singers like Karrin Allyson, Jackie Allen, Jacqui Naylor, Jane Monheit, Cassandra Wilson, Renee Olstead, Holly Cole, Stacey Kent, Tierney Sutton, Diana Krall... A very fine and varied compilation, and I just can't seem to get tired of it... Before that, I was mostly listening to ambient, electronic, acid jazz and the contemporary 'Indie' bands or singers (like Bright Eyes, Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart, Elliott Smith, Joseph Arthur, Damien Rice, M. Ward, David Gray, Calexico, Magic Numbers, The Flaming Lips, Arcade Fire, The Notwist, Band Of Horses, The Decemberists...). I like lots of variety in my listening habits...

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