Tena Palmer

Tena Palmer is a Canadian jazz singer who led the Celtic-free bop quartet Chelsea Bridge for five years.
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".In 2014, reviewer Stuart Broomer stated that her music "...would be difficult to corral it into any single genre, whether some subset of folk, rock, pop or jazz, but it’s all imbued with an expressive intensity in which the sensuous and spiritual blur into one another."
Discography (selected)
* North Atlantic Drift - Frökken 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)
* Crucibl- 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 Canadian jazz guitarist 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

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