Barbara Montgomery

A pleasing interpreter of standards whose influences include cool school favorites like Chris Connor, Julie London, and June Christy, Barbara Montgomery has been singing jazz since the 1960s, but didn't actually record an album until 1996. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Montgomery lived in Vietnam in the early to mid-'60s because of her father's work as an electrical engineer before moving to her adopted home of Philadelphia in the late '60s.