TESSA SOUTER
Vocal Jazz / World Fusion / Third Stream • United Kingdom
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Since her 2004 recording debut, Tessa Souter has established herself as a fearless innovator in vocal jazz—“broadly imaginative” (New York Times), “expressive . . . full of passion” (Philadelphia Inquirer), “direct and soulful” (Village Voice). NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan places her “at the top of my list of great talent.”
On Souter’s new Beyond the Blue, her fourth CD and second for Motéma Music, the London-born Anglo-Trinidadian New Yorker has raised the bar once again. Souter assembled a dozen classical melodies by composers such as Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, and Chopin. Three of the songs are familiar standards: “The Lamp Is Low” (Ravel), “My Reverie” (Debussy), “Baubles, Bangles and Beads” (Borodin). The others are new standards, with lyrics by Souter. All express the album’s leitmotif—exploring the shadows and light of love and intimacy.
The concept for the project came from Venus Records’ Tetsuo Hara, who co-produced the date with Jazz at Lincoln
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