Terri Quaye, also Theresa (born 8 November 1940, Bodmin, England), Val Wilmer
"Quaye, Terri (born 1940), singer, pianist, percussionist"

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- ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz'', 2nd edition. Published in print January 2002. Published online January 2003 , e-. is an English singer, pianist, songwriter and percussionist. She is the daughter of Cab Kaye, older sister of Caleb Quaye and half-sister of Finley Quaye. Her first professional experience came in 1958, singing with a Latin jazz band led by Ido Martin. She sang accompanied by Colin Purbrook, Leon Cohen, and Brian Lemon, then did a residency with Frank Holder. In Germany she worked in the group The Merrymakers as a conga player and singer, and played with Carmell Jones, Dave Pike, and Leo Wright. After a trip to

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, the birthplace of her grandfather, musician Caleb Quaye (1895–1922), she received her Ga name: Naa-Koshie. In the 1970s she worked with Manu Dibango, Syvilla Fort, Harold Mabern, Junie Booth, Richard Davis, Billy Higgins, Archie Shepp, Dudu Pukwana, John Stevens, Trevor Watts, Dr. John, and Art "Shaki" Lewis. She became more active as an educator and ethnomusicologist in the 1980s, at the Museum of African Art,

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, United States, and 1990s, gaining her master's in ethnomusicology in 1988 from the

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Jazzcocktail. She has also exhibited as an ethnographic photographer. Maplin Art Gallery have her work in their permanent collection. She has done mostly solo piano/vocal work in the 1990s, and opened her own bar in London, Jazzers 1996–99. She is now active within the Unitarian church as a lay preacher. Well known as a percussionist in the 1970s and 80s she now performs as a pianist and vocalist covering jazz standards. She is now based on the South Coast of England and recent performances have included the 2022 Swanage Jazz Festival.

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"Terri Quaye: Unitarian Lay Preacher & Jazz Musician"
Official website.

Music website.

Ghana Rising, 18 April 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Quaye, Terri 1940 births Living people English jazz singers English jazz pianists British women jazz pianists English people of Ghanaian descent British ethnomusicologists Alumni of the University of London People from Bodmin British percussionists 20th-century Black British women singers 20th-century English women singers British women jazz singers 21st-century English pianists British women anthropologists 20th-century English women pianists