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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