The groups name So.Weiss, echoed in the title of the piece So White, derives from a line of dramatic dialogue between Lady Macbeth and her husband just after the latter has killed the king and his unscrupulous wife wants to wash away his feelings of guilt a symbolic scene for just this fluctuation between light and dark that in the course of the album journeys between Scandinavia, old Britain and young Berlin.
So Weiss LIVE at Kulturbrauerei Berlin "The End Of Me":
Video produced by D-Zentral
Biography
Susanne Folk
born as a German/American on May 3rd 1978 in Braunschweig,
Germany
1988 started playing piano
1992 started playing the saxophone
1993/94 went to school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and won a „Special
Music Department Prize for Outstanding contributions to the Instrumental Programm“
1996 winner at „Jugend Jazzt“ in Lower Saxony
played in following Bigbands:
1997-99 in the Youth Jazz Orchestra of Lower Saxony lead by Bernhard Mergner
and toured through Russia
1999-2001 in the Youth Jazz Orchestra of Germany lead by Peter Herbolzheimer
2001 in the European Jazz Youth Orchestra lead by Benjamin Hermann and toured
through Europe
1998-2001 studied Jazz Music at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen with Hugo
Read and Peter Herborn
2001-2004 studied Jazz Music Education at the University of the Arts in Berlin
with Peter Weniger, David Friedman and Jerry Granelli
during these studies participated in workshops with: Kenny Wheeler, David
Liebman, Phil Woods, John Taylor, Joey Baron, Richie Beirach, David Tronzo
and also received lessons with John Ruocco und Martin Classen.
composes for her own trio So Weiss since 2002 and has played concerts and
smaller tours in Germany with her project and recorded a cd in October 2004
that will be released by Traumton Records in April 2006
2005 spent 2 1/2 months in New York City and took private lessons with Greg
Osby, Tony Malaby, Chris Speed, Ravi Coltrane, Matana Roberts and Tom Rainey
and took part in workshops (also the SIM workshop) with: Steve Coleman, Maria
Schneider, Vijay Iyer, Mark Helias, Henry Grimes, Tony Malaby, Uri Caine and
Eddie Gomez
September 2005 toured through Georgia, USA with Dan Nettles´ Kenosha
Kid and through Germany in January 2006
other momentarily projects in Berlin: The Kaktus Sextet, Interplay, Salome
and projects with the Chansonsinger Celina Muza and the caberet artist Tom
van Hasselt
Happiness For A Moment