The Cool Voice of Rita Reys is the debut album by Dutch jazz singer Rita Reys which features sessions recorded with bands led by drummers Art Blakey and her husband Wessel Ilcken.

The sessions are divided over each side of the original LP which was released on the Dutch Philips and US Columbia labels.

Her backup band was Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers.

Reys and Ilcken spent a few months in the United States during 1956–1957.

She had opportunities to sing not only with Blakey but Jimmy Smith, Chico Hamilton, Clark Terry, and Mat Mathews".