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Name
  
Tena Palmer

Albums
  
Holy Heart of Me

Role
  
Singer

Music group
  
Chelsea Bridge


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Tena Palmer is a Canadian jazz singer who led the Celtic-free bop quartet Chelsea Bridge for five years.

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Career

She "graduated from St Francis Xavier U. with performance diplomas in baritone sax and flute and a B.Mus. in voice." Mark Miller from The Globe and Mail states that "Palmer soars where angels fear to sing". Stuart Broomer of Toronto Life Magazine calls her "the most creative vocalist in Canadian free improvisation".

Discography (selected)

  • “North Atlantic Drift” – Frokken Lesley, original folk trio/jazz duo with John Geggie and Dan Artuso - 2005
  • Hymn of the 7th Illusion – Kitchen Motors,( chorister) with composers Barry Adamson and Pan Sonic, for choir and electronics, 2001 (listed by WIRE magazine in, “Best of 2001”)
  • Nart Nibbles – Kitchen Motors, compilation of Icelandic experimental music, 1999 (listed by WIRE magazine in, “Best of new music”, for its month of release)
  • Crucible"- Smekkleysa, (Bad Taste Records) solo CD 1998
  • The Blue Wall - Woolly Records, featured vocalist with the David Parker Trio, 1997
  • Not Drowning...Waving - Unity/Page, with Justin Haynes, 1996
  • Double Feature - Unity, with Chelsea Bridge Tentet, 1995
  • Tatamagouche...Next Left - Unity, with Chelsea Bridge, 1994
  • Blues in a Sharp Sea - Unity, with Chelsea Bridge, 1992

    • Songs

    Run Away - Sheep
    Wishbone Stew
    Alice's Toys
    Haul/Haul Away
    Nuclear Pidgeons
    Your Backyard
    Clubhouse Anthem
    Trieste - Chorale
    Fetch
    Með steikon
    Real Estate
    The Tatamagouche Tango
    Bye
    Scatwood on the Tubs
    Cascados con Carne
    Wild Horse
    Cameroon
    Yowser
    Watch the Wax Melt
    I Wanted More
    Bittersweet
    A Lament for the Clear-Cut Atlantic
    Soiree Song
    Les Aretes
    Marble

    References

    Tena Palmer Wikipedia
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