Female Vocals: Stunning Recordings You Love

[Buck_Rogers]

The "Black" in black Vinyl is "Carbon Black" the same material that makes Automotive Tires Black!

It's there to improve the wear factor to increase the lifetime and performance of the tire.

Who would have thought Carbon in tires is good for traction on Asphalt...?

I wish I had a good Imoje here.....

High quality PVC Poly Vinyl Chloride is Clear... and expensive~!

I'd love to explain how PVC is made, But that's getting off the topic.

Carbon is added as colorant and Filler but it also makes plastic, kick butt in the needed Characteristics for An Analog LP!

In the mean time I have owned several hundred colored, pictured, Laser burned LP records.

The sound goes from one of those "Best Value" LP's for 99 cents.

And goes WAY... Down hill from there.

Reminds me of the old Blue Rubber Tread tires Yeah. They didn't last......

Blade runner Black Lotus is a green color that flourescences under black light. Cool.

The fidelity is superb, Amazing audio engineering, Lots of great solid well defined bass and the mid, HF balance and Imaging is eye watering!

But there is a scritch... scritch... scritch... scritch... through the entire LP. So now I understand why it was 11.99 cents off ebay!

My theory is that carbon black's Hexagonal shape act's like Nano fiber's where the sharp edge atomic structure interlocks with the PVC's "Long Chain Polymers".

I found that rabbit hole in an 2010 issue of "Physics Today". Love that magazine. Molucules R US...

Buck

 

[Westy79]

Incredible vocal on this song by Ueno Nights featuring Emily Zuzik

 

[Gabs]

 

[BeepPeep_61]

Dena DeRose - Mellow Tones

Artist: Dena DeRose
Title: Mellow Tones
Released: 2025
Style: Jazz

Tracklist:
1. In a Mellow Tone (7:41)
2. Autumn in New York (4:10)
3. Two for the Road (4:32)
4. Stairway to the Stars (3:40)
5. Only Trust Your Heart (5:36)
6. Hold Fast to Your Dreams (6:56)
7. Thank You for Everything (5:56)
8. Maybe September (4:59)
9. My Frame for the Blues (5:31)

 

[BeepPeep_61]

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Personal History
Artist: Mary Chapin Carpenter
Title: Personal History
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Lambent Light Records
Genre: Singer-Songwriter

Tracklist:
1. What Did You Miss (4:59)
2. Paint + Turpentine (3:39)
3. New Religion (4:22)
4. Girl And Her Dog (4:59)
5. The Saving Things (4:54)
6. Hello My Name Is (6:10)
7. Bitter Ender (3:29)
8. The Night We Never Met (3:31)
9. Home Is A Song (4:06)
10. Say It Anyway (3:42)
11. Coda (4:48)

 

[WisEd]

 

[Timcognito]

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[BeepPeep_61]

Åsa Orbison - Blue Bayou

Artist: Åsa Orbison
Title: Blue Bayou
Released: 2025
Style: Jazz, Vocal Jazz

Tracklist:
01. Blue Bayou
02. Green Eyes
03. Take Five
04. Unchained Melody
05. Satin Doll
06. Bluesette
07. Love Is Strange
08. Waltz For Debby
09. Baby I’m Yours
10. Blue Bayou (Single Edit)

 

[Karmacoma]

Åsa Orbison - Blue Bayou

Artist: Åsa Orbison
Title: Blue Bayou
Released: 2025
Style: Jazz, Vocal Jazz

Tracklist:
01. Blue Bayou
02. Green Eyes
03. Take Five
04. Unchained Melody
05. Satin Doll
06. Bluesette
07. Love Is Strange
08. Waltz For Debby
09. Baby I’m Yours
10. Blue Bayou (Single Edit)
View attachment 457210

Sounds a lot better than the cover looks.

 

[tobyjug]

Nanci.

 

[Karmacoma]

Keren Ann - In your back
Not only the melody is great, not only the lyrics are inspired, but the audiophile-grade production is to die for, love that artist.

 

[TimVG]

Sample from a live concert (voice & organ) recorded by a friend, mixed by myself. Recorded and processed at 96kHz. Please note there was a voltage drop at 6:13 which gave a little buzzing sound (be warned).

 

[Chris A]

I'm a bit surprised that this next one hasn't apparently been identified anywhere on this site. In order to hear this one the way that I hear it, you're first need at least three-across front loudspeakers (typically found in a "hi-fi" 5.1 setup--with a really good center channel). I'm not sure if full-range directivity control (down to the room's transition frequency) is required to hear it as I'm hearing it, but I would guess that's pretty much needed, too.

https://www.discogs.com/release/120...ein-Van-de-Geyn-Inviting-Bert-Joris-In-Summer

This recording of a jazz-standard trio (double bass, female voice, trumpet across the front three channels) is at least two steps ahead of anything else that I own in terms of truly convincing in-room realism and live presentation...all kidding aside. If you've been searching for that "no-compromise, definitive, female vocals album", this is it.

I wish that I could find others as good as it. Truly the reason why I own a hi-fi setup.

Chris

 

[Karmacoma]

I'm a bit surprised that this next one hasn't apparently been identified anywhere on this site. In order to hear this one the way that I hear it, you're first need at least three-across front loudspeakers (typically found in a "hi-fi" 5.1 setup--with a really good center channel). I'm not sure if full-range directivity control (down to the room's transition frequency) is required to hear it as I'm hearing it, but I would guess that's pretty much needed, too.

https://www.discogs.com/release/120...ein-Van-de-Geyn-Inviting-Bert-Joris-In-Summer

View attachment 457359

This recording of a jazz-standard trio (double bass, female voice, trumpet across the front three channels) is at least two steps ahead of anything else that I own in terms of truly convincing in-room realism and live presentation...all kidding aside. If you've been searching for that "no-compromise, definitive, female vocals album", this is it.

I wish that I could find others as good as it. Truly the reason why I own a hi-fi setup.

Chris

You've got 95 pages of this thread to find others

 

[BeepPeep_61]

Melanie Scholtz - Sweet Nancy

Artist: Melanie Scholtz
Title: Sweet Nancy
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: AfricArise
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Total Time: 38:59

Tracklist
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01. Melanie Scholtz - The Great City
02. Melanie Scholtz - The Old Country
03. Melanie Scholtz - The Shadow Of Your Smile
04. Melanie Scholtz - You Leave Me Breathless
05. Melanie Scholtz - Too Late Now
06. Melanie Scholtz - Almost In Your Arms
07. Melanie Scholtz - Wild Is The Wind
08. Melanie Scholtz - All My Tomorrows
09. Melanie Scholtz - The Very Thought Of You

 

[BeepPeep_61]

Tawanda - Smile

Artist: Tawanda
Album: Smile
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2022

Tracklist:

Smile/I'm All Smiles (3:32)
Out of This World (6:48)
Bridges (5:27)
Sister Moon (5:43)
What a Little Moonlight Can Do (3:20)
I'm Okay (4:56)
A Child Is Born (4:58)
Lucky to Be Me (5:54)
Sack Full of Dreams (4:16)
Bring Back My Dreamer (7:10)
You and the Night and the Music (4:06)
Smile (a capella) (1:02)

Personnel:
Tawanda Suessbrich-Joaquim - vocals
Anthony Wilson - guitar
Kevin Axt - bass
Gary Meek - saxophone
Josh Nelson, Tamir Handelman - piano

 

[Sokel]

Thought to combine some easy to digest work as been a soundtrack, but Shana Blake Hill's voice shows its origins pretty easy.

Jerry Goldsmith & Shana Blake Hill - The Mission / If We Could Remember

 

[morillon]

L'âme du luth (Voix & oud)

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for those who are a little curious...
;-)

 

[EJ3]

Thought to combine some easy to digest work as been a soundtrack, but Shana Blake Hill's voice shows its origins pretty easy.

Jerry Goldsmith & Shana Blake Hill - The Mission / If We Could Remember

The music was quite good, the voice (while incredible) is not my cup of tea. Part of why opera is not my cup of tea (I have, unfortunately, been dragged into going to opera's in my born town of Salzburg, Austria).