American jazz historian, record label owner and feminist
Rosetta ReitzRosetta Reitz with the Performers of the Blues is a Woman Concert at the Newport Jazz Festival; (standing, l to r): Koko Taylor, Linda Hopkins, George Wein, Rosetta Reitz, Adelaide Hall, Little Brother Montgomery, Big Mama Thornton, Beulah Bryant; (seated, l to r): Sharon Freeman, Sippie Wallace, Nell CarterRosetta Reitz
Rosetta Reitz (September 28, 1924 – November 1, 2008) was an American feminist and jazzhistorian who searched for and established a record label producing 18 albums of the music of the early women of jazz and the blues.[1]