Album review: ‘Picture in Black and White’Posted in Autobiography, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States on 2018-10-08 03:16Z by Steven |
Album review: ‘Picture in Black and White’
Rochester CITY Newspaper
Rochester, New York
2018-09-24
Ron Netsky
Concept albums are common in rock, but rare in the jazz realm. Tessa Souter’s “Picture in Black and White“—set for release on October 5—breaks that mold. Souter, a Rochester favorite after multiple jazz festival appearances, has created an exquisite musical exploration of her identity. At the age 28, she discovered that her birth father was black and her roots reached from Africa to the Caribbean, from Celtic Britain to Andalusian Spain. Musical strains from all of these places permeate the album….
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