Rebecca Parris

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Rebecca Parris (Ruth Blair MacCloskey, Newton, Massachusetts, December 28, 1951 – June 17, 2018) was an American jazz singer. Rebecca has performed all over the world with her own groups, as well as with some of jazz's greatest legends, including Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Terry Gibbs, David "Fathead" Newman, Norman Simmons. Harold Jones, Andy Simpkins, Gerry Wiggins, Bill Cunliffe, Red Mitchell, Buster Cooper, Nat Pierce, and many others. She performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival, and the International Floating Jazz Festival. She has won the Boston Music Awards nine times. "I hear a little Carmen McRae when I listen to Rebecca", said Ron DellaChiesa, the jazz disk jockey at WGBH in Boston. "And a little Sarah Vaughan. I think she's on that level". "Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McRae were my friends while they were alive, and it was a huge blessing to know them," said Parris. "And being accepted as one of them was huge". Discography Year Title Genre Label 1984 Passionate Fling Jazz Shira 1985 Live at Chan's [Live] Jazz Shira 1990 Love Comes and Goes Jazz Ent. Exclusives 1993 Spring Jazz Musicmasters 1994 A Beautiful Friendship Jazz Altenburgh Jazz 1994 It's Another Day (with Gary Burton) Jazz GRP 1997 Double Rainbow [Live] Jazz Shira 2001 My Foolish Heart Jazz Koch 2002 The Secret of Christmas Jazz Shira 2007 You Don't Know Me Jazz Saying It With Jazz She was born of a family of musicians and educators. Rebecca

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Hot Jazz For A Cool Night: A Jazz Christmas

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My Foolish Heart

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You Don't Know Me

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A Jazz Christmas: Hot Jazz For A Cool Night

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Spring

音楽のある風景 ～冬から春へ～

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Harry and David Jazz Classics

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music with a view -winter to spring-

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A Jazz Christmas - Hot Jazz for a Cool Night

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A Passionate Fling

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The Secret Of Christmas

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Harry & David Jazz Classics

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