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Teri Roiger (voice) & John Menegon (bass) have been active on the jazz scene for the last 25 years as musicians, composers and educators. This dynamic DUO presents an interesting selection of jazz standards plus their original compositions. They have collaborated and recorded with many legends, including Jack DeJohnette, Kenny Burrell, Dewey Redman, David "Fathead" Newman, Joe Lovano, Frank Kimbrough, Matt Wilson, and many others. John was Dewey Redman's bassist for ten years and has been a member of the David "Fathead" Newman Quintet for the past ten years. Teri recently won 3rd place in the Jazz category in the 2006 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) for "Still Life," and John was a finalist in the 2007 ISC for "WildFire." Living just outside of New York City in the Catskill Mountains, they are both teachers of Jazz at SUNY New Paltz & Williams College. They love to play the music of Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Ray Charles, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Cole Porter, and many others. "A pure voice, jazz singer Teri Roiger is a very special kind of jewel. When you hear her rich, full, melodious voice, she appears shockingly similar to the famous singer Billie Holiday. Combined with the experience and depth of bassist John Menegon, this is exceptional music. "Roiger is in the first rank of jazz vocalists, now and historically. Her vocals always sweet, strong, and on target...Menegon's bass playing precisely all around the tune, complementing the full tones of her voice. Watching Teri and John play together, you see that what they truly share, beyond innate musicality and an infectious rhythmic sense, is the same source vibe. They mirror one another. The lines of musical communication between these two are wide open and well traveled...very rich, very full, very moving." "To hear Teri Roiger is to experience that peculiarly beautiful combination of improvisation, tone, feeling, and phrasing that are distinct elements of jazz freedom. She is made for those who still understand the meaning of the term "the real thing." "A discovery at the Sunside in Paris, Teri Roiger, somewhere between Abbey Lincoln, Billie Holiday and Anita O'Day, played with elegance, expressiveness and authenticity."Jean Szlamowicz, Jazz Hot, Paris Festival International de Jazz de Montreal with Dewey Redman, Pat Metheny, Matt Wilson: "MENEGON met the demands of the music with a combination of relaxed swing and more outward-looking freedom. His solos were the perfect confluence of rhythmic invention and melodic conception." "Teri has an intuitive laid back sense of time remininescent of Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter but with her own uniqueness." "Until recently I had no idea of how hip Teri's voice is and of how great she sounds. Her phrasing is amazingly horn-like and her tone is killing!" "New York-based Teri Roiger is a terrific, serious jazz singer who deserves a wider audience. Her work is probing, hornlike, a bit daring, reminiscent of Abbey Lincoln, and her repertoire—ranging from Monk to Sting to Strayhorn—is exemplary." "A fine carpet of swing laid by bassist John Menegon sets the jump-blues feel on Menegon's tune Bu Bop Bass just right on Newman's latest CD Cityscape #1 on JazzWeek Charts!" "Roiger has a voice like the finest bittersweet chocolate full of rich, dark, contradictory flavors that miraculously blend to create one of the most original vocal instruments in decades." "Her smoky, human voice of experience is a relief to hear. Teri Roiger's the real item." "Menegon's appropriately named Boo Bop Bass opener on Soul Advice is akin to stepping into a welcoming room on a frigid winter night." Live at the Jazz Standard, NYC:"Teri Roiger's voice possesses all the expressiveness and versatility required for anything with Billy Strayhorn's name on it. You want smooth, sexy, sad, pouting, coy, cool, vulnerable, very nasty with lots of 'tude— you got it. When singing Billy's tunes, Teri clearly demonstrates she has the necessary soul but she also has the heart, and the affection comes through with every note." "Multiple, finely honed talents are on display when Teri Roiger, a jazz singer's jazz singer, steps on stage. Roiger's sure-footed scat singing is a marvel." "Her voice is amazing!" "Thanks to a tip?I got to enjoy an arresting solo piano and vocal performance of Teri Roiger at a restaurant...Roiger's somewhat delicate, but firmly womanly timbre, and subtle phrasing touches, while resulting in a very personal sound, evoked for this listener the spirit and perspective of Billie Holiday." | |||||||||||
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