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Your Favorite Legacy Jazz Vocalists Total Voters

SvenErik Olsen
  1. Ella Fitzgerald
  2. Julie London
  3. Jimmy Rushing
  4. Mildred Bailey
  5. Jeri Southern
  6. Billie Holiday
  7. Blossom Dearie
  8. Dinah Washington
  9. Maxine Sullivan
  10. Bessie Smith
  11. Ivie Anderson
  12. Alberta Hunter
  13. Ethel Waters
  14. Peggy Lee
  15. Doris Day
  16. Johnny Hartman
  17. Nat King Cole
  18. Frank Sinatra
  19. Mel Torme
  20. Monica Zetterlund
  21. Astrud Gilberto
  22. Jo Stafford
  23. Connee Boswell
  24. Louise Tobin
  25. Helen Forrest
  26. Helen Humes
  27. Helen Ward
  28. Etta James
  29. Anita O'Day
  30. Sarah Vaughan
View James E Scalise/ CY GREEN's All About Jazz profile James E Scalise/ CY GREEN
  1. Frank Sinatra
Virginia C. Wilch
  1. Ella Fitzgerald
  2. Billie Holiday
  3. Nat King Cole
  4. Bing Crosby
  5. Astrud Gilberto
  6. Peggy Lee
  7. Sarah Vaughan
Darryl Ball
  1. Dinah Washington
Bill Brennan
  1. Frank Sinatra
  2. Sarah Vaughan
  3. Ella Fitzgerald
  4. Peggy Lee
  5. Anita O'Day
  6. Billie Holiday
  7. Nat King Cole
  8. Nina Simone
  9. Dinah Washington
  10. Ray Charles
  11. Carmen McRae
  12. Jimmy Scott
  13. Bessie Smith
  14. Johnny Hartman
  15. Betty Carter
  16. Ethel Waters
  17. Jon Hendricks
  18. Julie London
  19. Mel Torme
  20. Jimmy Rushing
  21. Chris Connor
  22. June Christy
  23. Oscar Brown Jr.
  24. Billy Eckstine
  25. Abbey Lincoln
  26. Mose Allison
  27. Joe Williams
  28. Al Jarreau
Joseph Braunschek
  1. Ella Fitzgerald
  2. Sarah Vaughan
Linda Scarborough
  1. Dinah Washington
  2. Ella Fitzgerald
  3. Billie Holiday
  4. Mel Torme
  5. Johnny Hartman
  6. Sarah Vaughan
  7. June Christy
  8. Anita O'Day
  9. Abbey Lincoln
  10. Rebecca Parris
View Steven Charles's All About Jazz profile Steven Charles
  1. Leon Thomas
  2. Mel Torme
  3. Ella Fitzgerald
  4. Nancy Wilson
  5. Gil Scott-Heron
  6. Joe Williams
  7. Abbey Lincoln
  8. Nina Simone
  9. Frank Sinatra
  10. Sarah Vaughan
  11. Kenny Rankin
  12. Mark Murphy
  13. Carmen McRae
  14. Al Jarreau
  15. Johnny Hartman
  16. Mose Allison
  17. Tony Bennett
  18. Barbara Morrison
Luis Marques
  1. Billie Holiday
  2. Ella Fitzgerald
  3. Julie London
  4. Sarah Vaughan
  5. Anita O'Day
View Maurizio Fabiani's All About Jazz profile Maurizio Fabiani
  1. Ella Fitzgerald
Mike Dougherty
  1. Ella Fitzgerald
View Bob McMurray's All About Jazz profile Bob McMurray
  1. Ella Fitzgerald
  2. Anita O'Day
  3. Julie London
  4. Peggy Lee
  5. Nina Simone
  6. Johnny Hartman
  7. Frank Sinatra
  8. Joe Williams
  9. Al Jarreau
View Don Gooding's All About Jazz profile Don Gooding
  1. Ella Fitzgerald
  2. Sarah Vaughan
  3. Carmen McRae
  4. Nancy Wilson
  5. Anita O'Day
  6. Al Jarreau
  7. Billie Holiday
  8. Mark Murphy
  9. Mel Torme
  10. Ernestine Anderson
  11. Dakota Staton
Alain Robert
  1. Nina Simone
  2. Billie Holiday
  3. Abbey Lincoln
  4. Ella Fitzgerald
  5. Betty Carter
  6. Bessie Smith
Sea Greene Miller
  1. Billie Holiday
  2. Doris Day
  3. Donny Hathaway
  4. Nat King Cole
  5. James Brown
  6. Tito Rodriguez
  7. Sarah Vaughan
  8. Barbara Morrison
  9. Tony Bennett
  10. Billy Paul
Eva Sorensen
  1. Ella Fitzgerald
  2. Billie Holiday
  3. Carmen McRae
  4. Mavis Rivers
  5. Sara Martin
  6. Sarah Vaughan
  7. Rosemary Clooney
  8. Carol Fredette
  9. Barbara Morrison
  10. Della Reese
  11. Bill Henderson
  12. Al Jarreau
  13. Lou Rawls
  14. Nat King Cole
  15. Natalie Cole
  16. Sammy Davis Jr.
  17. Dean Martin
  18. Frank Sinatra
  19. Donny Hathaway
  20. Bing Crosby
  21. Elvis Presley
  22. Lina Romay
Darius Jones Shrek
  1. Sarah Vaughan
  2. Mavis Rivers
  3. Ella Fitzgerald
  4. Barbara Morrison
  5. Anna Mae Wilburn
  6. Billie Holiday
  7. Carmen McRae
  8. Billy Eckstine
  9. Tony Bennett
  10. Dean Martin
  11. Frank Sinatra
Hedda Myers
  1. Barbara Morrison
  2. Bill Henderson
  3. Nat King Cole
  4. Lou Rawls
  5. Dinah Washington
  6. Etta James
  7. Tony Bennett
  8. Mahalia Jackson
View Connie Silverstein's All About Jazz profile Connie Silverstein
  1. Amy Winehouse
  2. Barbara Morrison
  3. Carmen McRae
  4. Dean Martin
  5. Tony Bennett
  6. Al Jarreau
  7. Al Jolson
View Sandro Oramas's All About Jazz profile Sandro Oramas
  1. Billie Holiday
  2. Ella Fitzgerald
  3. Sarah Vaughan
  4. Nina Simone
  5. Anita O'Day
  6. Carmen McRae
  7. Abbey Lincoln
  8. Lena Horne
  9. Dinah Washington
Ithamara Koorax
  1. Betty Carter
  2. Carmen McRae
Lisa Mitchell
  1. Barbara Morrison
  2. Celia Cruz
  3. Judy Garland
  4. Eartha Kitt
Pete Dillon
  1. Amy Winehouse
  2. Lina Romay
  3. Judy Garland
  4. Barbara Morrison
  5. Carmen McRae
  6. Martha Raye
  7. Rosemary Clooney
  8. Dinah Washington
  9. Doris Day
  10. Celia Cruz
  11. Sammy Davis Jr.
  12. Dean Martin
  13. Bing Crosby
Dr. Freda Wilson
  1. Eartha Kitt
  2. Barbara Morrison
  3. Patti Page
  4. Nat King Cole
  5. Tony Bennett
  6. Lou Rawls
  7. Louise Tobin
  8. Della Reese
  9. Dean Martin
Blue Michaels
  1. Dinah Washington
  2. Billy Eckstine
  3. Big Mama Thornton
  4. Barbara Morrison
  5. Tony Bennett
  6. Rosemary Clooney
  7. Patti Page
  8. Eartha Kitt
  9. Christiane Legrand
  10. Michel Warlop
Boris Gibson
  1. Sara Martin
  2. Aretha Franklin
  3. Nat King Cole
  4. Joya Sherrill
  5. Barbara Morrison
  6. Carol Fredette
View Mrs Pluto Jones-Hoeck's All About Jazz profile Mrs Pluto Jones-Hoeck
  1. Barbara Morrison
  2. Amy Winehouse
  3. Big Mama Thornton
  4. Big Joe Turner
  5. Bobby Blue Bland
  6. Bobby Womack
Dr. Anita Aames
  1. Dinah Washington
  2. Barbara Morrison
James Ferguson
  1. Carmen McRae
  2. Frank Sinatra
  3. Barbara Morrison
  4. Nat King Cole
  5. Amy Winehouse
Mrs. Mary Lee
  1. Barbara Morrison
  2. Etta James
  3. Big Mama Thornton

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