#rita reys

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1961 - Essener Jazz Tage

14 april : Kenny Clarke, Bud Powell, Jackie McLean, Art Taylor, Jay Jay Johnson, Roland Kirk, Buck Clayton, ...

15 april : Rita Reys, Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland, Jay Jay Johnson, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Rouse, Ruby Braff, Jimmy Woode, ...

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Singer Rita Reys outside the jazz club Restaurant Metropol, Oslo 1960

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Rita Reys with Oliver Nelson

A 1966 Dutch broadcast of Rita Reys backed by an all-star Oliver Nelson orchestra begins with It Could Happen To You. The real treat is an extended performance of Just Friends, featuring trumpeter Benny Bailey, fluegelhornist Art Farmer, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, trombonist Ake Persson and drummer Stu Martin. Thanks to Marc Myers and JazzWax.

-Michael Cuscuna

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1963 - Comblain Jazz festival - Comblain-la-Tour (Belgique / Belgium)

Jimmy Smith, Bud Shank, Johnny Griffin, Rita Reys, Pim Jacobs, Franco Cerri, Marc Laferrière, Michel Roques, Albert Mangelsdorff, René Thomas, Jacques Pelzer, Philippe Catherine, …

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Rita Reys [Maria Everdina Reijs] (21 December 1924 – 28 July 2013) was a jazz singer from the Netherlands. She was promoted as "Europe's First Lady of Jazz".

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Rita Reys : Died July 28, 2013

Soviet and Russian singer, known as the "Songbird of Siberia", celebrated for her unique voice and interpretations of Russian folk songs.

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