Rebecca Parris
Rebecca Parris ( born December 28, 1951 in Newton ( Massachusetts)) is an American jazz singer.
Parris is the daughter of two music teachers. She began early to sing ( with musical performances at summer theaters with her father from six years ), studied at the Boston Conservatory, sang only about ten years in pop cover bands and in the early 1980s turned to jazz. Role models for them were Sarah Vaughn and Carmen McRae, they also knew personally and with whom she was on friendly student - teacher ratio in his own words. She lives in the Boston area ( Duxbury ( Massachusetts)) and won nine times in the Boston Music Awards, which earned her the nickname of the First Lady of Boston jazz. She has performed at international jazz festivals such as the Monterey Jazz Festival ( 1990, 1995 ), the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Oslo Jazz Festival.
She sang with several big bands and joined, among others, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Wynton Marsalis, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Terry Gibbs, Bill Cunliffe, Nat Pierce, Red Mitchell, David Fathead Newman, Gerry Wiggins, Andy Simpkins and Buster Cooper on.
She has published in the 1980s several albums under his own name and gives courses in jazz singing.