Teri Thornton

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Teri Thornton出道的時(shí)候只有十八、九歲，出了幾張唱片沒(méi)紅，然后就沈寂下去，隔了三十幾年，才再得到出唱片的機(jī)會(huì)，當(dāng)時(shí)她蠻潦倒的，在一些小酒館走唱，遇到一個(gè)她以前的Fan，這位樂(lè)迷小姐是音樂(lè)經(jīng)紀(jì)人，她就說(shuō)要幫Thornton作經(jīng)紀(jì)人，安排演出、唱片合約等等，但是Thornton這時(shí)卻得了癌癥，本來(lái)已經(jīng)想死了，經(jīng)紀(jì)人又安排她參加美國(guó)規(guī)模最大的Monk爵士音樂(lè)大賽，和一群新人競(jìng)爭(zhēng)。決賽時(shí)，為歌手伴奏的樂(lè)團(tuán)是主辦單位請(qǐng)來(lái)的三重奏，當(dāng)時(shí)那個(gè)鋼琴手一直掉眼淚，根本沒(méi)辦法好好彈，因?yàn)槟莻€(gè)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(jìng)爭(zhēng)最激烈的「孟克國(guó)際爵士音樂(lè)大賽」該年舉辦的是演唱比賽。這時(shí)，65歲的爵士女歌手Teri Thornton在醫(yī)院里剛動(dòng)完手術(shù)，仍舊與癌癥抵抗中。Thornton的經(jīng)紀(jì)人為了激勵(lì)她與病魔搏斗的士氣，替她報(bào)名了這個(gè)獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)。三個(gè)月后，Thornton贏得了冠軍，成就了爵士樂(lè)史上最令人動(dòng)容的篇章，當(dāng)時(shí)的亞軍是Jane Monheit。再過(guò)二年，Thornton終究抵不過(guò)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.