Europe's First lady of Jazz died in 2013 at the age of 88, she performed almost to the end says music expert Tim Fisher in this final instalment about her life.
Tim Fisher has a few suggestions if you like to hear Rita sing some of the music which made her famous:
Once Upon A Summertime (composer Michel Legrand): https://youtu.be/aPnCNcogVDw *
Deed I Do (78-rpm from 1953, recorded in Stockholm with the Lars Gullin Band ): https://youtu.be/kvgTkmj4S-8
After You’ve Gone (recorded in the 1960s with the Dutch Swing College Band): https://youtu.be/PpY9Sm8wWOQ
Thou Swell (live recording at the Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival 1960, where she became known as "Europe’s First Lady of Jazz") https://youtu.be/vrag29iwGJY
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