Teri Thornton

小簡介
Teri Thornton出道的時候只有十八、九歲，出了幾張唱片沒紅，然后就沈寂下去，隔了三十幾年，才再得到出唱片的機會，當(dāng)時她蠻潦倒的，在一些小酒館走唱，遇到一個她以前的Fan，這位樂迷小姐是音樂經(jīng)紀(jì)人，她就說要幫Thornton作經(jīng)紀(jì)人，安排演出、唱片合約等等，但是Thornton這時卻得了癌癥，本來已經(jīng)想死了，經(jīng)紀(jì)人又安排她參加美國規(guī)模最大的Monk爵士音樂大賽，和一群新人競爭。決賽時，為歌手伴奏的樂團是主辦單位請來的三重奏，當(dāng)時那個鋼琴手一直掉眼淚，根本沒辦法好好彈，因為那個鋼琴手正是三十五年前Teri Thornton上一張唱片的製作人。
1998年，全美競爭最激烈的「孟克國際爵士音樂大賽」該年舉辦的是演唱比賽。這時，65歲的爵士女歌手Teri Thornton在醫(yī)院里剛動完手術(shù)，仍舊與癌癥抵抗中。Thornton的經(jīng)紀(jì)人為了激勵她與病魔搏斗的士氣，替她報名了這個獎項。三個月后，Thornton贏得了冠軍，成就了爵士樂史上最令人動容的篇章，當(dāng)時的亞軍是Jane Monheit。再過二年，Thornton終究抵不過病魔，於千禧年五月病逝於紐澤西。
Jazz singer Teri Thornton was a favorite of critics in the '60s and after a three decade-long year hiatus, returned to performing in the '90s amid critical acclaim. She's best known for singing "Somewhere in the Night," the theme of detective TV series The Naked City, starring Paul Burke.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, she began performing in local jazz clubs in the '50s. Moving to New York in '60s, she got into singing on national ad jingles and recorded for different record labels. On her Devil May Care LP, the impressive lineup was trumpeter Clark Terry, guitarists Freddie Green and Sam Herman, sax players Earl Warren and Seldon Powell, trombonist Britt Woodman, pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Sam Jones, drummer Jimmy Cobb and arranger Norman Simmons. To find more work, Thornton journeyed to Los Angeles. Returning to New York in 1983, the singer found steady work in jazz clubs.
Thorton also won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in the Vocal category with her rendition of "I'll Be Easy To Find" in 1998. That same year, she was diagnosed with cancer. Winning the competition bolstered her career leading to a new recording, I'll Be Easy To Find after more than three decades. At the age of 65, Thornton died of complications from bladder cancer at Englewood Hospital in Englewood, NJ on May 2, 2000.