Tessa Souter Beyond the Blue 200g LP

Tessa Souter

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VENLP0057

UPC:

4571292515672

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Description

Rare Find, Long Out Of Print!
Limited Quantities!

Singer Tessa Souter stunned us a few years ago with her brilliant debut album from Venus Records, Nights of Key Largo which became a Swing Journal Gold Disc. Her latest release is an ambitious album based on the same concept as Simone Kopmajer's New Romance: Writing lyrics to well-known classical melodies and performing them in a jazz setting. A former journalist and talented writer, Tessa herself wrote the lyrics of all but three songs. Supported by top jazz musicians in New York, Tessa sings intelligently and elegantly, taking full advantage of her gorgeous voice. Recommended!

"Writing songs is great... It's a lot like journalism. You write something, then you edit it and edit it, and it's always improving." - Tessa Souter, NPR

"A beyond-beautiful collection of music" - AllAboutJazz

"Stunningly original" - Jazz Times

"Scintillating, haunting, poetic" - Boston Globe

Recorded at The Avatar Studio in New York on March 27 and 28, 2011. Engineered by Katherine Miller. Mixed and mastered by Tetsuo Hara.

Features:
200g Vinyl
Pressed in Japan
Original Lyrics to Jazz-Interpreted Classical Pieces
Tessa Souter & Top New York Jazz Musicians

Musicians:
Tessa Souter, vocals
Steve Kuhn, piano
David Finck, bass
Billy Drummon, drums
Joe Locke, vibes
Gary Versace, accordion
Joel Frahm, saxophone

Selections:
Side A:
1. Beyond The Blue (Tessa Souter-Frederic Chopin) - From Chopin's Prelude in E minor, Opus 28, No. 4
2. Chiaroscuro (Tessa Souter-Tomaso Albinoni) - From Albinoni's Adagio
3. The Darkness Of Your Eyes (Tessa Souter-Gabriel Faure) - From Pavane
4. Dance With Me (Tessa Souter-Alexander Borodin) - From Polovetsian Dances
Side B:
1. Noa's Dream (Tessa Souter-Franz Schubert) - From Serenade
2. Brand New Day (Tessa Souter-Gabriel Faure) - From Elegy
3. Sunrise (Tessa Souter-Johannes Brahms) - From Symphony No. 3, 3rd Movement
4. The Lamp Is Low (Peter de Rose, Bert Shefter-Maurice Ravel) - From Pavane For A Dead Princess