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Artist
Tessa Souter
12+ albums
jazzfemale vocalistsvocal jazzAll2000s
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“Souter's crystalline contralto and impeccable phrasing are mighty arrows in her quiver, but it is her ability to become one with a song, finding its intrinsic core and allowing its sentiments to grow organically, that enables her to score successive bull's eyes....” Christopher Loudon, JazzTimes (March 2010) "I would not now be a singer, had I not lived in San Francisco in my 30s. And although I sometimes wish I'd started earlier, I think coming to it late was a good thing for me," says London-born, New York-based, Anglo-Trinidadian singer, composer and lyricist Tessa Souter, who has been praised as much for the expressive way she brings her life experience to her music, as for her "strikingly beautiful voice, which really serves great lyrics, using the beauty of her voice to unearth and get to the core of great songs." [Sirrius Radio] Her unique style, which infuses jazz with the soul and passion of flamenco, Middle Eastern and Brazilian music, is born of her unusual life story. And her new CD, Obsession -- a multicultural banquet that reflects her African, Indian, and English bloodlines -- is her third. "Compelling and utterly original." Paul Quinn, Jazzwise magazine. "The best thing is that Souter sounds different." [Karl Stark, Philadelphia Inquirer]. "There's no one doing what Tessa does," enthused critic Will Friedwald. "One of the most imaginatively programmed vocal sets of recent memory." said the Los Angeles Times, in a rave review of her California debut in
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albums
Obsession
Beyond the Blue
Listen Love
Night of Key Largo
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Best Of Jazz Audiophile Voices
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Venus Jazz Wine Bar
Picture in Black And White
Shadows and Silence the Erik Satie Project
Nights Of Key Largo
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50 Tunes Of Jazz From Venus Records
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須永辰緒の夜ジャズ ～Jazz Allnighters～ digs Venus Jazz Opus III
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Venus Jazz Wine Bar (CD 1)