IN AN OPEN MIND
Teri Roiger & John Menegon
MUSIC composed, engineered and produced by JOHN MENEGON @ Tiny House Recording Studio in the Hudson Valley LYRICS by TERI ROIGER Frank Kimbrough (piano) Jeff Siegel (drums)
Teri has an intuitive laid back sense of time reminiscent of Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter but with her own uniqueness. JACK DEJOHNETTE, Legendary Jazz Drummer & 2012 NEA JazzMaster
A discovery at the Sunside in Paris, Teri Roiger, somewhere between Abbey Lincoln, Billie Holiday and Anita O'Day, played with elegance, expressiveness and authenticity. JEAN SZLAMOWICZ, Jazz Hot Magazine, Paris
Teri Roiger has a voice like the finest bittersweet chocolate full of rich, dark, contradicting flavors that miraculously blend to create one of the most original vocal instruments in decades. VIC GARBARINI, Playboy Magazine
Roiger is one of the great though unheralded vocal artists and lyricists of her generation, a living link to giants like Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln. The similarities to these influential precursors are certainly there: Roiger is determined, uncompromising, and blessed with a high level of creative energy and industry that knows no pause. Her singing is filled with natural range, color and emotion, yet somehow seems utterly effortless. She has formidable piano chops, too, writes music and pens lyrics to famous jazz solos, a la vocalese masters Jon Hendricks and Eddie Jefferson.” THOMAS STAUDTER, Music Journalist (2023) Westchester Gazette, Downbeat, etc.
The Jazz Passengers at the Bergamo Jazz Festival in Italia March 20 (2026)
Auditorium dell'Istituto Palazzolo
bergamojazz.org
New York City Jazz Record "live" review AUGUST 2025 issue
TERI ROIGER (vocals), JOHN MENEGON (bass)
Vocalist Teri Roiger and bassist John Menegon are pros, with the Zen–like ability to focus and transcend distractions . . . Easing into the program (July 10), the first number was an easy, lilting standard with a hopeful message (not unwarranted in these tough times), “Look for the Silver Lining.” And as per the lyric, “somewhere the sun is shining,” it sure was, lighting up the husband-wife duo with a blessed synergy in their music making. Roiger’s vocals are smooth and serene, kind of transcendental, even in swing mode. Menegon, fond of slap bass, has a rich, robust touch, with intuitive time-keeping support. There’s a saying about jazz that the best practitioners thereof have a “feeling for it”: Roiger embodies that ethos with superb phrasing and evocative storytelling. Marilyn Lester for NYC Jazz Record
MISTERIOSO has been re-mixed and mastered by Dave Darlington (Bass Hit Studios) and was released on VINYL on July 12 (2024) celebrating the 25th anniversary of the first release!
TERI ROIGER (vocals & synth)
JOHN MENEGON (bass & arrangements)
KENNY BURRELL (guitar)
JACK DEJOHNETTE (drums)
Teri collaborated with John Menegon on her first CD, along with jazz greats Kenny Burrell & Jack DeJohnette. Teri recorded her original lyrics to the title song "Misterioso" with the approval of the Thelonious Monk family.
