Tessa Souter Quartet October 3, 2012

Everybody's talking about award-winning singer, lyricist and composer Tessa Souter, whose music, a multicultural banquet that reflects her African, Indian and English bloodlines, has been called "an exquisite exercise in seductive spell casting." (Jazz Times) In the years since forsaking a successful journalism career for the jazz life, Tessa has made three critically acclaimed CDs, and has just recorded a brand new project (nine of the 12 songs feature her original lyrics), with jazz greats Steve Kuhn, David Finck, Billy Drummond, Joel Frahm, Gary Versace and Joe Locke.