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Soesja Citroen - Sings Thelonious Monk © Timeless CD JC 11021
 
  Soesja Citroen In 1983 Soesja Citroen wrote the lyrics for her album "Soesja Citroen sings Thelonious Monk". Soesja also recorded "In Twilight" on her recent CD's "Here and Now" and "Song for Ma".
The album "Soesja Citroen sings Thelonious Monk" was born out of Soesja's love and admiration for Monk's music and her search for different kind of song to sing than the well-known standards. A year before the Monk album, she recorded Ruby My Dear (with own lyrics) on the LP 'Key Largo', an album that is unavailable now for a long time.
As far as her singing is concerned Soesja especially liked to sing the Monk-ballads with their beautiful atmosphere and interesting angular melody-lines. On her latest CD "Song For Ma" with Michael Moore on clarinet she performs ten of her own songs (music and lyrics) but also sings a free duo-version (voice and piano) of Crepuscule With Nellie (In Twilight) with pianist Berend van den Berg.
1. In Walked Bud (T. Monk - S. Citroen)
2. In Twilight (Crepuscule With Nellie) (T. Monk - S. Citroen)
3. Come With Me (Let's Cool One) (T. Monk - S. Citroen)
4. 'Round Midnight (T. Monk - B. Hanighen / C. Williams)
5. Well You Needn't (T. Monk - Emerso)
6. Underneath This Cover (Monk's Mood) (T. Monk - S. Citroen)
7. Blue Monk (T. Monk)
8. Sure It Can Be Done (Monk's Dream) (T. Monk - S. Citroen)

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Soesja Citroen : vocals
Dusko Goykovich : trumpet
Cees Smal : valve trombone
Ferdinand Povel : alto saxophone
Ruud Brink : tenor saxophone
Herman Schoonderwalt : baritone saxophone
Cees Slinger : piano
John Clayton : bass
Jacques Schols : bass
Peter Ypma : drums
Kees Kranenburg : drums
Soesja Citroen took up her singing career in 1979. With her band she soon was to become a very well known appearance in Dutch jazzclubs and theaters and also at the North Sea Jazz Festival, at which she performed in 1981 for the first time. Next to that, she did radioshows with the Metropole Orchestra and won a second prize at the Knokke Songfestival. She recorded a lot of albums.
- 1980 "To Build" featuring Willem Breuker,
- 1981 "Good enough for jazz" with Nico Bunink,
- 1982 "Key Largo" with Cees Slinger.
- 1983 "Soesja Citroen sings Thelonious Monk" came out, an album on which she firmly established herself as a lyricist.
- 1985 "Angel Eyes" with the Metropole Orchestra conducted by Rogier van Otterloo. She was to make more albums with that famous orchestra,
- 1987 "Soesja Citroen sings Fred Astaire"
- 1989 "Soesja in Silk", a beautiful ballad-CD conducted by Robert Farnon.
- In between, she also produced the band-album "Shall we Dance".
- 1986, playing at the Yatra Jazz Festival in New Delhi and Bombay was one of the special highlights in Soesja's career. The other one was her concert in 1993 in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.
- 1991 on "Soesja Citroen Band Live", Soesja proves she's not only a great singer of ballads but also a wild woman on stage "when the spirit moves her".
- 1994 "Here and Now" came out and Soesja had a tv-show in Ljubljana.
- 1996 Soesja performed successfully again at the North Sea Jazz Festival and made her CD "Songs for Lovers and Losers" with Louis van Dijk and Hein Van de Geyn. The German jazz magazine JazzPodium called Soesja an European Top Jazzsinger and the American jazz magazine Jazz Times called her absolutely sensational.
- 1997 "Yesterdays" was released, a compilation of her three albums with the Metropole Orchestra.
- 1998 Soesja recorded as singer/songwriter a new CD "Song for Ma"; an autobiographical CD with all songs of her own and special American guest Michael Moore on clarinet. This cd and the subsequent theater-tour was highly acclaimed in the press.
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