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| 1. | My Town and Me
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| 2. | The Samba Calls
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| 3. | Love in Vain
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| 4. | You'll Take Care of Me
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| 5. | Good Old Jazz
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| 6. | Song for Ma
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| 7. | Just Another Man
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| 8. | Wise Women Know
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| 9. | Give Love One More Chance
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| 10. | Place of Silence
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| 11. | Tell Me No Fortunes
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| 12. | Don't Cry Baby
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| 13. | Sweet Companions
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| 14. | Sun in the Morning
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| 15. | Lonely Street
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Jazz
Soesja Citroen: vocals, liner notes
Berend van den Berg: piano
Joep Lumey: bass
Joost Kesselaar: drums
Collected Songs is a compilation of tracks taken from the three albums Soesja Citroen recorded with her own music between 1998 and 2005.
* Hein Van De Geyn - A&R
* Joost Leyen - Photography
* Marcel van den Broek - Art Direction
* Max Bolleman - Engineer
Soesja Citroen (singer/composer) has brought her music to Dutch and international stages for over 25 years. In recent years, she has been singing her own compositions with pianist Berend van den Berg and bassist
Ruud Ouwehand.
She was born in The Hague, was raised with classical music and as a teenager started to sing jazz. After completing her Master’s in social psychology, she opted for jazz and took voice and piano lessons.
She has performed in many European countries, played at the Yatra Jazz Festival in India, sung in New York and toured though Indonesia.
After making three LP’s with, among others, Nedly Elstak, Willem Breuker and Nico Bunink, she recorded her album Soesja Citroen sings Thelonious Monk in 1983 with Cees Slinger. On this CD, she herself supplied the texts for five Monk compositions.
Between 1984 and 1989 she recorded three albums with the Metropole Orchestra under the direction of Rogier van Otterloo and Robert Farnon. Fifteen of these pieces appear on the compilation CD Yesterdays (1998, CHR70049).
Beginning in 1994, she made her two first CD’s for Challenge Jazz with songs from the American songbook. With reference to the CD Songs for lovers and losers (1996, CHR70034), Alex Henderson of All Music Guide wrote, “very soulful phrasing” and “moving and personal interpretations of Standards such as Angel Eyes and Lush Life.”
The turning point of her career came when she began composing at the age of 48.
Her last three CD’s, Song for ma (1998, CHR70056), Soesja sings Citroen (2001, CHR70101) and Don’t Cry Baby (2005, CHR70127) contain 40 of her own compositions, both music and text. She received a lot of feedback from the United States, the country whose song tradition Soesja elaborates on with her pieces.
In Jazz Times, she was called “absolutely sensational” and a “formidable composer.” In the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD from 2004, her Monk CD received 4 stars and her song Song for ma was called “magnificent.”
In the newly released book Jazz Singers: The Top 500 by Scott Yanow she is described as one of the top five hundred vocalists in the world.
Soesja Citroen
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Standards, Vocal Jazz
Although not well known in the U.S., Soesja Citroen is among Holland's top jazz singers and has commanded a lot of respect in European jazz circles. Her influences include Abbey Lincoln, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, among others, and she is an expressive interpreter of lyrics as well as a talented composer/lyricist. Though Dutch is her native language, Citroen's English is excellent--and she sings with only a slight trace of a Dutch accent. The vocalist was born and raised in the Hague, and as a young adult, she moved to Amsterdam to further her education and earned a masters degree in social psychology. Citroen was 32 when, in 1980, she recorded her debut album, To Build--and she went on to provide seven more albums in the 1980s, recording for Turning Point, Varagram and Timeless. It was in 1983 that she recorded the Turning Point release Soesja Citroen Sings Thelonious Monk, which received rave reviews from European jazz critics and is considered one of her best albums. Another conceptual offering that enjoyed high marks from European critics was 1987's Soesja Citroen sings Fred Astaire on Varagram. Citroen was equally busy in the 1990s, when she recorded for Varajazz and Challenge and often worked with the well respected British producer Chris Ellis.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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