Anne Marie Moss

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Anne Marie Moss (born February 6, 1935 in Toronto , † February 29, 2012 in New York City ) was a Canadian jazz singer and vocal teacher.

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Anne Marie Moss was largely self-taught (she was taught breathing exercises by Portia White in 1955), performed as a child and began as a jazz singer in the early 1950s in the groups of Joey Masters and Calvin Jackson , who worked in Toronto. She also sang in dance bands and appeared in various entertainment programs on the CBC , occasionally with the bands of Norman Symonds and Ron Collier . From 1956 to 1958 she toured Canada and the United States with Don Thompson .

In 1959 she was a band singer in the Maynard Ferguson Big Band ; in the USA she also worked with the Count Basie Orchestra and briefly replaced Annie Ross in the vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. In 1961 she married the singer Jackie Paris . The two performed together in nightclubs until 1980 and played the album Live at the Maisonette with Steve Gadd in 1975 ; In 1980 her solo album Don't You Know Me? (Stash) with jazz standards like My Romance , I'm Old Fashioned or How Long Has This Been Going On . In the 1980s she performed occasionally in Toronto after separating from Jackie Paris in 1981; otherwise she taught singing, from 1987 at the Manhattan School of Music in New York.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries of the Darmstadt Jazz Institute February 2012
  2. ↑ a b Portrait in The Canadian Encyclopedia
personal data
SURNAME Moss, Anne Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 2012
Place of death New York City