31.   My mom was also a jazz singer, so I heard Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and people like that.

32.   Ms. Wilson is nominally a jazz singer.

33.   My voice opens up on top and I have a solid low voice, which comes from my work as a jazz singer.

34.   On her sixth release, Canadian jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall whips up a soothing yet seductive salve for the emotional unsteadiness of recent days.

35.   Patricia Barber, a fine Chicago jazz singer with a solid following of her own, is also on the bill.

36.   Over the next month, Monheit will be fully launched on a career trajectory closer to that of a pop star than a jazz singer.

37.   Perhaps the best jazz singer singing today is a woman almost everybody seems to have missed.

38.   Reena, an international jazz singer, was abandoned by her impresario husband when she was pregnant with their sixth child.

39.   She plays a sultry jazz singer who counsels a recently divorced Holly Hunter.

40.   Sunday brunch, with the jazz singer Yvonne Washington, is a real treat.