And Then She Wrote - Poetry Goes Jazz Sonja Indin

• 1 This Poem 05:02
• 2 Expecting You – Accepting You 03:33
• 3 Mom's Care (Mom's Song) 04:21
• 4 It All Seems Like Nothing at All 04:45
• 5 Rainbow 05:17
• 6 Femme Phénoménale 04:19
• 7 Inventory 03:56
• 8 And Then I Wrote 03:41
• 9 Freedom (Welcome) 04:28
• 10 Sometimes It's Hard Being a Mom 03:46
• 11 Friendship 03:31
• 12 Renewal 04:16
• 13 Vers La Fin De L'hiver (A Day in Paris) 04:18
• 14 Take Good Care – Heb Dier Sorg 04:13
• Total Runtime 59:26

Info for And Then She Wrote - Poetry Goes Jazz

There's the title cut: or rather, the George Shearing instrumental to which Indin has set her own lyrics, and whose title--"And then I wrote"--she (re)makes her own, in tribute to the female poets she has mobilised for her project. Indin's feisty words against Shearing's cool vibe create a productive tension, as the female practitioner of a male- dominated craft takes over the "master's tools", not so much to dismantle his house as to rebuild it, driven both by her need for liberation --"Speak your mind, pronounce it"--and by her desire for a revivification of a revered tradition--"I first heard this song / I had to hum along, / N' then I wrote these lines / Substantial words that rhyme." Rather than being cowed by her great predecessors, or crushed by the continuing injustices of her age ("Bewildered as I am / In these modern times"), Indin resolves to make her mark, on the musical world and in her life as a woman and mother. Because, as she writes, "Who gives in speechless? / Careless? Wordless?" Well, not Sonja Indin, that's for sure.

Sonja Indin, vocals
Roman Tulei, piano
Fridolin Blumer, double bass
Peter Preibisch, drums
Special guest:
Victoria Mozalevskaya, saxophone

Sonja Indin
Sonja Inderbitzin was born in Zurich in the Swiss canton of Zurich in 1980. She studied jazz singing with the Swedish jazz singer Marianne Racine at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), with the Swiss jazz singer Lisette Spinnler in Basel and with the British jazz singer Nia Lynn (A Flexible Harmonica, The Bannau Trio) at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, Wales. She studied at the ZHdK from 2005 to 2010 and obtained a Master of Arts in Education.

Sonja Indin has been performing with her own band since 2005. The names as well as the line-up of the band have changed several times. In winter 2010/2011, Sonja Indin's debut album (vocals, piano, composition) was recorded with Simon Kessler (guitar), Fridolin Blumer (double bass) and Markus Neuweiler (drums). They were joined by four guest musicians Thierry Kuster (saxophone), Sebastian Müller (vibraphone), Ambrosius Huber (cello) and Andreas Ambühl (bass clarinet), who have already played in previous bands. Their debut album "Do you know me?" was released in 2011 via Brambus Records.

On 16 December 2014, a successful crowdfunding campaign started on 100-days.net to finance the Tucholsky chanson CD "Augen in der Grossstadt". The CD with chansons on texts by the German writer Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) was released on 13 February 2015. Sonja Indin and the classical pianist Isora Castilla have reinterpreted songs from the 1920s for it. The CD for the stage programme of the same name with the actress Beren Tuna had already been recorded at the start of the crowdfunding campaign; the campaign was intended to support the recording production.

From 2007 to August 2013, Sonja Indin also worked as a singing teacher in Dübendorf. From 2011, she also worked as a singing teacher at the Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich (MKZ).

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