The guitarist has already made fairly an impact on London’s young jazz scene,but 2019 will see her branch out with her own leftfield popTunisian techno, Xitsongan rap and Satanic doo-wop: the best new music of 2019Jazz fans often speak of a formative moment that leads them to the genre, and often a gateway album such as Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. For the guitarist Shirley Tetteh,it was because she couldn’t sound like Slayer.“I wanted to write music that pushed me,” Tetteh says, and “and I decided it was either going to be jazz or metal.” But she found shredding her electric guitar too difficult and was drawn to Wes Montgomery and George Benson instead. “Jazz felt more natural to my fingers,and that was when I became obsessed,” she says. This newfound passion was symbolic of other changes in the then-18-year-old’s life. My getting into jazz coincided with me stepping out into the world, and ” she says,now 28. “I left the church and accepted I was homosexual. That was enormous.”You had to play 10 times harder whether you were a woman and wanted to be taken seriouslyContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com