Rebecca Kilgore is a celebrated jazz vocalist known for her effortless portrayals of the Great American Songbook. Sadly, in 2024, Rebecca was diagnosed with Dementia with Lewy Bodies, and is currently in an adult foster care home. You can contribute to Rebecca’s care HERE.

In 2020 Rebecca Kilgore was named Portland Jazz Master by PDX Jazz, Portland’s nonprofit organizer of jazz concerts and annual Biamp Jazz Festival. She is honored to have been inducted (in 2010) to the Oregon Music Hall of Fame and to the Jazz Society of Oregon’s Hall Of Fame, and to have been invited to perform at New York’s Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention for three years at Town Hall and Lincoln Center. She was the guest of honor at the 2013 Roswell Jazz Festival, and honored as a Jazz Legend at the San Diego Jazz Party in 2016.

She was a frequent guest on National Public Radio’s ‘Fresh Air’ with Terry Gross, has appeared on ‘A Prairie Home Companion’, and with Michael Feinstein at Carnegie Hall. She has performed with the Statesmen Of Jazz, dedicated to perpetuating the art of jazz for future generations.

Rebecca has performed with Andy Brown, Harry Allen, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Dick Hyman, Bernd Lhotzky, Dave Frishberg, Ehud Asherie, Randy Porter, Rossano Sportiello, Paolo Alderighi, John Sheridan, and others. She has collaborated with vocalists Dave Tull, Greta Matassa, and Eddie Erickson.

The Rebecca Kilgore Quartet (formerly known as BED) was a popular favorite on the jazz festival circuit: with Eddie Erickson (guitar/banjo/voice), Dan Barrett (trombone), and Joel Forbes (bass).

Rebecca Kilgore has over 50 recordings in her discography, with Dave Frishberg, Harry Allen, Dan Barrett, John Sheridan, Nicki Parrott, Rossano Sportiello, Paolo Alderighi, and many others.