Tessa Souter

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Tessa Souter

Tessa Souter (born April 3, 1956 in London ) is a British journalist , jazz singer and songwriter .

Live and act

Souter's parents are from Trinidad and England; when she was eight she took piano lessons. At the age of twelve she began to play the guitar autodidactically and to write lyrics for instrumental compositions, but without recording them. At the age of 16 she left home, married and had a son. After her divorce, she ran into financial difficulties and worked in various jobs; she also finished college and took a job as an editor for a parenting magazine.

In the 1990s she moved to the United States, living in Lenox, Massachusetts, New York, and San Francisco. From 1992 to 1996 she wrote as a freelancer for various magazines and newspapers, such as The Times , The Independent , Vogue , Elle . In the late 1990s, she began a second career as a jazz singer after receiving a 1998 scholarship from the Manhattan School of Music . However, after a semester of music theory, she gave up studying to take private lessons with Mark Murphy .

Since 1999 she joined a. with Mark Murphy, Joe LaBarbera , Santi Debriano and Howard Johnson . In 2004 her debut album Listen Love was released , followed by Nights of Key Largo (2008), on which Kenny Werner , Joel Frahm , Jay Leonhart and Billy Drummond was accompanied. She presented the album Obsession in 2009; Souter wrote lyrics to compositions by Kenny Barron , Freddie Hubbard and Milton Nascimento for her work, which Allmusic identified as “a kind of modern Great Anglo-American Songbook” ; She also played a jazz version of Nick Drakes River Man , the Pete Brown / Jack Bruce song White Room and the Beatles classic Eleanor Rigby .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical portrait at Motema
  2. ↑ Review of the album Nights of Key Largo (Ken Dryden) at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ Review of Ken Dryden's Obsession album at Allmusic . Retrieved February 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ Portrait ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at All About Jazz @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.allaboutjazz.com
personal data
SURNAME Souter, Tessa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Souter, Teresa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH London