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Released: Apr 8, 2009
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  • Genre: Jazz

    Location Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Ne

    Profile Views: 130390

    Last Login: 5/10/2013

    Member Since 1/10/2007

    Website scitroen@xs4all.nl

    Record Label Challenge Jazz

    Type of Label Indie

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Soesja Citroen: DON'T CRY BABY All Music Guide.. Review by Scott Yanow..

A top jazz singer from Holland, Soesja Citroen has a high wistful voice, a cool but emotional style, and she is expert at placing notes in the perfect spots. Although in the past she recorded tribute albums to Thelonious Monk and Fred Astaire, on Don't Cry Baby she contributed all 16 selections, both the words and the music. The lyrics are in English and she sings without any real accent. The words are intelligent and deal with such subject matter as melancholy love affairs, the joy of early jazz, a remembrance of a drizzly day, the infectious thrill of dancing to a samba, and a humorous look at plastic surgery. With proper exposure, a few of these songs could become standards in the future, so singers looking for fresh material are particularly advised to explore this ballad-oriented collection.

Penguin Guide writers Richard Cook and Brian Morton awarded the maximum of 4 * and wrote in 2005 about Citroen:.. - Leading singer on the Dutch scene... - This is a hugely exciting album, worthy of the widest notice... - CD, which carries off its bruised romanticism with great conviction... - The title song Song for Ma is magnificent... - Time she was better known outside her native country...

Bruce Crowther reviewed in 2004 the CD Soesja Sings Citroen:.. Soesja Citroen, a strikingly good singer from The Netherlands. She is also a very good songwriter as is demonstrated on this set as Soesja presents fifteen of her own love songs , all of which are melodically pleasing and have intelligent lyrics. Soesja's sound is mature and assured and the interplay with the clarinet and alto saxophone of Michael Moore is delightful.

David Lewis wrote in CADENCE:.. The atmospheric ballad "Place of Silence" is a superb song that shows why she deserves recognition as a composer.

Marcela Breton wrote in JAZZ TIMES:.. Dutch vocalist and songwriter Citroen shows herself a formidable composer.

Patricia Myers wrote also in JAZZ TIMES:.. She's absolutely sensational and I hope she arrives on our side of the Atlantic very soon.

Alex Henderson wrote in the All Music Guide:.. The thoughtful nature of her English lyrics on her originals seems all the more impressive when you take into account that English is not her native language.

Soesja Citroen - Monk's Mood.. Soesja Citroen - Song for Ma.. Soesja Citroen - I'm Lucky.. Soesja Citroen - Fading Memories.. Soesja Citroen - Moonray..

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