Teri Thornton - Somewhere In The Night (Remastered) (1963/2025) [Official Digital Download]

Teri Thornton first wowed audiences in 1963 with her hit recording of "Somewhere in the Night" from the television series Naked City. Her comeback to the jazz world was highlighted in 1998 when she won the Thelonious Monk Vocal Competition. On this episode of Piano Jazz, she and host Marian McPartland team up for an unforgettable "I'll Be Seeing You," and Thornton performs her signature take on "East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)."

Cannonball Adderley called her "the greatest voice since Ella Fitzgerald".

Teri Thornton had a husky, keening voice with a muscly vibrato; she was a vibrant performer with a caustic sense of humor, and she was particularly gifted at coaxing harmonic complexity and emotion out of the blues.

She was born in Detroit, where her parents, Robert Avery, a Pullman porter, and Burniece Crews Avery, a choir director and singer who was the host of a local radio show, encouraged her to study classical music.

Teri Thornton, whose original name was Shirley Enid Avery, took up jazz instead, learning to sing and play the piano. By the age of 19, she was a divorced mother of two and had not yet begun to sing professionally.

TRACKLIST

1. Teri Thornton - Somewhere in the Night
2. Teri Thornton - I've Got Your Number
3. Teri Thornton - There's a Boat Dat's Leavin Soon for New York
4. Teri Thornton - Lonely One
5. Teri Thornton - Stormy Weather
6. Teri Thornton - I Believe in You
7. Teri Thornton - Mood Indigo
8. Teri Thornton - Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
9. Teri Thornton - I've Got the World on a String
10. Teri Thornton - Clap Yo' Hands
11. Teri Thornton - Serenade in Blue



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