Tessa Souter Quintet w/ special guest Tim Ries
Joe’s Pub hosts a rare New York celebration of the birthday of eccentric French composer Erik Satie, led by New York Times critics’ pick Anglo-Trinidadian jazz vocalist Tessa Souter. The evening features music from her internationally acclaimed album Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (2025, Noanara), which brings Satie’s haunting Gnossiennes and Gymnopédies vividly into the present through Souter’s original lyrics and bold new jazz arrangements by GRAMMY-winning pianist Luis Perdomo.
Praised for her “butterscotch timbres” (★★★★ DownBeat), evocative lyricism, and fearless genre-crossing vision, Souter has created an album hailed as “a work of true brilliance” (UK Jazz News), “a masterpiece” (★★★★★ Audio Stereoplay), and “outstanding” (★★★★ Jazzwise). A renowned live performer, “rarely does a vocalist dare to embody a lyric with as much depth and rawness as Souter.” (UK Jazz News) Reviewing the album’s Joe’s Pub release show last July, seven-time GRAMMY-nominated critic and author Will Friedwald wrote: “Like the late Abbey Lincoln, Souter’s wordsmithery concerns big, even existential topics, such as the nature of beauty and the essence of existence… Moving, engaging, and highly emotional… this is something I actually want to listen to.”
Tessa Souter is a recipient of a 2025 grant from Chamber Music America’s Artistic Projects program, funded through the generosity of the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Luis Perdomo, piano
Boris Kozlov, bass
Billy Drummond, drums
Tim Ries, soprano sax
Pascal Borderies, spoken word
Photo credit: Evi Abeler
Venue Joe's Pub
Runtime 75 minutes
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Pricing
Tickets are $30 (inclusive of advance phone/web service fee; door price).
There is a 2 drink or 1 food item minimum, per person, during every show at Joe's Pub.
Doors Open
5:30PM
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