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| 1. | Introduction To Song For Ma
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| 2. | Song For Ma
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| 3. | This Year's Spring
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| 4. | Samba With The Blues
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| 5. | Sun In The Morning
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| 6. | My Town And Me
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| 7. | Lonely Street
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| 8. | Place Of Silence
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| 9. | Kolo (Nights Of Skopje)
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| 10. | In Twilight
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| 11. | Love's Knot
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| 12. | This Is The House
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| 13. | Spell Of Desire
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| 14. | Tell Me No Fortunes
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Jazz / Standards
Soesja Citroen - vocal, music & lyrics
Berend van den Berg - piano
Joep Lumey - bass
Joost Kesselaar - drums
Landmark recording signifying Soesja Citroen's coming of age as a singer-songwriter. Her compositions highlights various stylistic features from the sweet jazzwaltz of Love Knot and the bluesy This Is The House to Tell Me No Fortunes - a mixture of swing and samba-ish rhythms. Essential for this album is the title track Song for ma in which she describes herself as the little girl in her hometown of The Hague, sitting in a tree looking at her mother's house and listening to her mother’s exotic playing of the piano. The warmth of her past and future Reflections are captured in this haunting ballad. Another track worth your attention is Sun In The Morning - a light jazzwaltz refering to the freedom of interpretation / improvisation and inspired by John Coltrane's My Favourite Things, a lifetime hero of Soesja.
Soesja Citroen's ability to personalize other artists' compositions is one of her strong points, but on Song for Ma, the Dutch singer's own compositions are the main focus. One of the few melodies on this excellent CD that Citroen didn't write herself was Thelonious Monk's "Crepuscule with Nellie," which she provides thoughtful lyrics for. This isn't the first time Citroen has embraced Monk's music with fine results -- 1983's Soesja Citroen Sings Thelonious Monk, in fact, is among her most celebrated albums. Citroen writes the music and lyrics for ten of the CD's 14 tracks. The thoughtful nature of her English lyrics on "Lonely Street," "This Year's Spring," "Sun in the Morning," and other originals seems all the more impressive considering that Dutch, not English, is her native language. Produced by Chris Ellis, Song for Ma is highly recommended to lovers of post-bop jazz singing. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
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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