"The HR mouthpiece presented an easy transition from the old New York Meyer I’d been playing for years.

The DV mouthpiece has some remarkable qualities, not least of which are its ability to bring out the overtones in the low-middle register, and the consistency of tone quality from pianissimo to fortissimo.

As a colleague of Jody’s for many years, I can attest not only to his skill and knowledge as a player, but also to his dedication to the art of the woodwind mouthpiece. I look forward to trying any mouthpiece that he invents."

"She plays like Charlie Parker reincarnated! She smokes!" is what Jazz Central Station had to say about Sue Terry--a saxophonist, composer and vocalist who's been hailed as a "Superwoman of Jazz" (Hartford Courant) and a "forward voice in modern music" (Saxophone Journal).

While a student at the Hartt School in Hartford, Connecticut, Sue was a protégée of saxophone legend Jackie McLean. McLean encouraged her to move to New York City, where she was later mentored by Clifford Jordan, Junior Cook and Barry Harris, who collectively gave her the nickname Sweet Sue.

Upon her arrival in New York in the eighties, Sweet Sue became a featured soloist with bands led by Jazz masters Charli Persip, Clifford Jordan, Walter Bishop, Jr. and Jaki Byard. She went on to work with greats such as Dr. Billy Taylor, Clark Terry, Al Jarreau, Chaka Khan, George Duke, Barry Harris, Hilton Ruiz, Irene Reid, Juan Carlos Formell, Dr. John, Teri Thornton, Mike Longo and Howard Johnson. She has also performed with Jazz VIPs like Art Blakey, Carmen McRae, Jon Faddis, Lew Tabackin, Wynton Marsalis, Lew Soloff and Ray Barretto.

Sweet Sue has appeared as Jazz soloist with the National Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and both the Florida and New York Pops Orchestras.

She has performed worldwide at venues such as The Montreux Jazz Festival; Grande Parade du Jazz in Nice, France; Pori Jazz Festival; Northsea Jazz Festival; the Blue Note in Tokyo, Japan; Quasimodo in Berlin, Germany; Marian's Jazzclub in Bern, Switzerland; and Spice of Life in London, UK. In the States she has been a frequent performer at venues such as The Kennedy Center in Wash. D.C. and Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.

Her discography of more than forty recordings includes her as leader/composer on "Gilly's Caper", "Pink Slimy Worm", and “Bandleader 101”, and as co-leader/composer on "The Troubadours" and "The Blue.Seum Project." Other artists whose recordings have featured her playing and writing include Charli Persip, Clifford Jordan, Joe McMahon, Derwyn Holder, Bobby Sanabria, Mini All Stars, Jaki Byard, Ricardo Franck (Ti Plume), Fred Ho, Scot Albertson, and DIVA.

Sweet Sue has conducted masterclasses and lectures throughout the U.S. and is the author of “Practice Like The Pros,” and several other instructional books published by Music Sales Corporation. She is also a longtime practitioner of the martial art of Taiji Quan. She is a regular columnist for the quarterly Jazz Improv Magazine.

More about her career can be found at www.sueterry.net, and in the books "Reed All About It" by Bob Bernotas, and "Madame Jazz" by Leslie Gourse, featuring a portrait of Sweet Sue on the cover by photographer Jimmy Katz.

Sue Terry is a Yamaha Artist.