Lucy Reed (January 14, 1921 – July 1, 1998) was an American jazz singer, active on the Chicago jazz scene in the 1950s. She was born in

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as Lucille Dollinger. In 1955, she performed with

Bill Evans William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His use of impressionist harmony, interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block ch ...

in New York City, and

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and

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in 1957. While a teenager attending Humboldt High School in

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, she started out singing on KSTP radio with a group of four girls, earning $5 per week. Lucy met her first husband, jazz drummer Joey DeRidder while living in

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and she performed with his musical group, the Joey DeRidder Orchestra. They married in June, 1941 and had a son in July, 1942 but Joey was killed in action while co-piloting a B-17 over

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on July 31, 1944.

Discography

* ''The Singing Reed'' (

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, 1957) * ''This Is Lucy Reed'' (Fantasy, 1957) * ''Basic Reeding'' (

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, 1994)

References

External links

Official site
1921 births 1998 deaths American jazz singers American women jazz singers People from Marshfield, Wisconsin Singers from Wisconsin 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers {{US-singer-stub