Rachel Gould (born June 25, 1953 in

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, as ''Rachel Field'') is an American singer and teacher of

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Life and works

Gould studied cello and classical singing at

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from 1960 till 1971. From 1964 she worked as a backup singer. She only appeared occasionally in the early 1970s, in the jazz clubs on the East Coast. Only after her divorce and moving to Germany did she establish herself as a jazz musician. She formed her own quartet and toured Europe. In 1979, she appeared in London with

Chet Baker Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool". Baker earned much attention and ...

and played the much acclaimed album "All Blues". In the early 1980s, she performed at numerous European festivals, and worked with groups led by

Ack van Rooyen Ack van Rooyen (1 January 1930, The Hague – 18 November 2021) was a Dutch jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist. He was the brother of Jerry van Rooyen. Van Rooyen began playing with a military band as a teenager, touring bases in Indonesia. He the ...

Lou Blackburn Lou Blackburn (November 12, 1922 – 7 June 1990) was an American jazz trombonist. Biography Blackburn was born in Rankin, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his work in the swing genre but he also performed in the West Coast jazz and sou ...

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Bobby Burgess Robert Wilkie Burgess (born May 19, 1941) is an American dancer and singer. He was one of the original Mouseketeers. Later, he was a regular on ''The Lawrence Welk Show''. Early life Growing up in Southern California, Burgess started performi ...

Michel Herr Michel Herr (born 16 February 1949 in Brussels) is a Belgian jazz pianist, composer and arranger. In addition to releasing jazz albums, composing for jazz ensembles and touring widely as a performing musician, he has also composed scores for ...

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Dieter Reith Dieter Reith (25 February 1938 – 1 April 2020) was a German organist and pianist. Biography Reith began taking piano lessons in 1945. In 1956, he played with the jazz club "Katakombe" in Mainz. After he earned his Abitur in 1958, he studied mu ...

and

Erwin Lehn Erwin Lehn (8 June 1919, Grünstadt – 20 March 2010) was a German jazz composer, bandleader and musician. On 1 April 1951 he established the ''Südfunk dance orchestra'' of the South German Radio in Stuttgart, which he directed until 1992. Wi ...

. In 1983 Gould sang for quite a while in the United States and, in

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, with

Woody Herman Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading groups called "The Herd", Herman came to prominence in the late 1930s and was active until his dea ...

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and

Jake Hanna Jake Hanna (April 4, 1931 – February 12, 2010) was an American jazz drummer. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States. Hanna first performed in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the house drummer at Storyville nightclub in Boston, ...

. Upon her return to Germany, she presented at the Leverkusen Jazz festival the band "Breath & Bones". She continued her work in Germany from 1984 onwards, consisting mainly of teaching: first as a lecturer at the conservatories in

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and Hamburg, before travelling in 1987 to the Swiss Jazz School. She later went on to work with

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and

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. She played with

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on the album "A Sip of Your Touch" (1989), and, with his band, on a live album at the

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1991. Since 1991, she has worked as a lecturer in jazz singing at the

Royal Conservatory of The Hague The Royal Conservatoire ( nl, Koninklijk Conservatorium, KC) is a conservatoire in The Hague, providing higher education in music and dance. The conservatoire was founded by King William I in 1826, making it the oldest conservatoire in the Netherl ...

(Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag).

Discography

* Chet Baker & Rachel Gould ''

All Blues "All Blues" is a jazz composition by Miles Davis first appearing on the influential 1959 album ''Kind of Blue''. It is a twelve-bar blues in ; the chord sequence is that of a basic blues and made up entirely of seventh chords, with a VI in the t ...

'' (with Henri Florens, Jean Paul Florens,

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, Tony Mann, 1979) * The Dancer (with Dennis Luxion, Wilson de Oliveira, Rudi Schroeder, Clarence Becton released as LP 1982, as CD 1999) * ''More of Me'' (with

Allan Praskin Allan Conrad Praskin (December 17, 1948, in Los Angeles) is an American jazz musician (alto saxophone player, composer and bandleader). He is living in Europe for more than 30 years. Life and works Praskin had clarinette lessons, when he was ...

, Larry Porter, Thomas Stabenow,

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1993) * Rachel Gould & Luigi Tessarollo ''Tribute to Hoagy Carmichael'' (with Riccardo Fioravanti, Giovanni Gullino, 2007)

Literature

Martin Kunzler Martin Kunzler (born 29 April 1947) is a German jazz bassist and music journalist. He gained particular fame through his ''rororo Jazz-Lexikon'' published by Rowohlt Verlag, which is now considered the standard German-language work on this music ...

''Jazz-Lexikon. Band 1.'' Reinbek 2002;

References

External links

Biography ''Jazzmasters.nl''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gould, Rachel Boston University College of Fine Arts alumni 1953 births American jazz singers Living people Musicians from Camden, New Jersey