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Mavis Rivers

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Mavis Rivers has been described by many of her peers as one of the world’s great female jazz singers, and she attracted an international following among jazz purists. Frank Sinatra is said to have described her as the ‘purest voice’ in jazz, comparing her to Ella Fitzgerald. Her New Zealand recordings are little known to the outside world, but they form an important part of the history of recorded music in this country. Although she spent much of her life in the United States, Rivers holds a special place in the hearts of many New Zealanders, who warmly remember her as this country’s finest jazz singer

News: Recording

Southern and Rivers: High Notes

Southern and Rivers: High Notes

Jeri Southern and Mavis Rivers [above]—two important jazz-pop singers who got their start in the 1950s—have just been treated to solid retrospective CD sets. Both collections offer an in-depth overview of each artist and provide insights into how singers were developed back then and routinely re-positioned by their labels in hopes of charting a hit. Southern ...

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Article: Big Band Report

June Means Jazz as Festivals Flourish

Read "June Means Jazz as Festivals Flourish" reviewed by Jack Bowers


June, as always, is a harbinger of exciting things to come as the jazz festival season springs forth in earnest, causing even the most ardent couch potatoes to bestir themselves and start perusing the calendar to locate interesting events in their neck of the woods. Here in New Mexico, the “outdoor" season comes to life with ...

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Video

Teach Me Tonight

Featuring the music of Mavis Rivers
Duration: 4:03

Mavis Rivers is backed by Norman Simmons - piano; Steve Novosel - bass; Mike Sheppard - drums.
Album

Take A Number/Hooray For Love

Label: EMI Music
Released: 2002

Album

It's A Good Day

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1984

Album

Mavis

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1961


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